Captain Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid, originally Alec Stratford Reid, was an English aviator and politician, son of Reverend Arthur Morse Reid and his wife Agnes Celina Flower.
Educated at University College School and Clare College, Cambridge, in the First World War he served as a pilot in the Royal Air Force, being credited with seven aerial victories and in 1918 awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. In 1922 he entered UK politics, being elected as Member of Parliament for Warrington and later for St Marylebone until defeated in 1945.
In 1927 he married Ruth Mary Clarisse Ashley, coheiress of a multimillionaire and sister-in-law of Lord Louis Mountbatten, with whom he had two sons before divorcing in 1940. In 1944 he married Angela Williams, but they divorced. He died in France in 1977.
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