Sir Frederick Fergus Graham, 5th Baronet KBE TD (10 March 1893 – 1 August 1978) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.
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Early life
Graham was a "member of one of the most distinguished Border families". He was the son of Sir Richard James Graham, 4th Baronet, and Lady Mabel Cynthia Duncombe, who were first cousins. His younger siblings included Richard Graham-Vivian (who married Audrey Emily Vivian, daughter of Maj. Henry Wyndham Vivian) and Daphne Graham (who married Sir Kenneth Barnes).
His maternal grandparents were William Duncombe, 1st Earl of Feversham and Mabel Violet Graham. His paternal grandparents were Sir Frederick Graham, 3rd Baronet and Lady Jane Hermione Stewart (a daughter of Edward Seymour, 12th Duke of Somerset). His paternal grandfather and maternal grandmother were siblings, both children of the prominent British statesman Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet, who served as First Lord of the Admiralty and Home Secretary.
He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford.
Career
Graham served from 1914 to 1918 during the Great War as Captain of the Irish Guards, where he was severely wounded, and mentioned in despatches, "leading a charge at Givenchy in February, 1915." After he recovery, he served as aide-de-camp to his father-in-law, Gen. Reade and, later, to Gen. Fielding. "After the War he returned to Oxford and took a course in agriculture" and became a tenant farmer in North Cumberland.