Ailwyn Fellowes, 1st Baron Ailwyn

Ailwyn Edward Fellowes, Baron Ailwyn, in a caricature by Spy in Vanity Fair magazine dated August 6, 1896

Ailwyn Edward Fellowes, 1st Baron Ailwyn , PC , KCVO , KBE (* 10. November 1855 in Haverland, Norwich , Norfolk , † 23. December 1924 in Honingham , Norfolk) was a British politician of the Conservative Party , which from 1887 to 1906 Member of Parliament ( House of Commons ) and in 1905 Minister of Agriculture (President of the Board of Agriculture) was. In 1921 he became the Baron Ailwyn in the hereditary nobility of the Peerage of the United Kingdom raised and belonged until his death in the upper house ( House of Lords ) as a member.

Life

Member of the House of Commons and Minister of Agriculture

Fellowes was the younger son of the conservative member of the House of Commons, Edward Fellowes , who in 1887 as Baron de Ramsey , of Ramsey Abbey, in the County of Huntingdon, was raised to the hereditary nobility of the Peerage of the United Kingdom and thus to the House of Lords until his death in the same year belonged as a member, as well as from his wife Mary Julia Milles. His older brother William Fellowes was also a conservative member of the House of Commons for a few years and, after his father's death in 1887, inherited the title of 2nd Baron de Ramsey and the associated membership in the House of Lords. He himself was baptized in his birthplace on December 2, 1855, and attended the renowned Eton College between 1865 and 1871 . After that, he studied at Trinity College of the University of Cambridge .

In 1885, Fellowes applied unsuccessfully to the Conservative Party in the Mid-Norfolk constituency for a seat in the House of Commons. In 1886 he failed again with a candidacy for the Conservative Tories for a lower house mandate in the constituency of North Norfolk . On August 30, 1887, he was for the Conservative Party for the first time a member of the lower house ( House of Commons ) and represented there by 12 January 1906 constituency Ramsay . During his membership in parliament he succeeded Charles Spencer as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household on July 10, 1895 and held this office until December 3, 1900, when Alexander Fuller-Acland-Hood was his successor. He then held from December 3, 1900 to March 14, 1905 as Junior Lord of the Treasury .

In the Cabinet of Prime Minister Arthur James Balfour he took over on March 14, 1905 from William Onslow, 4th Earl of Onslow, the office of Minister of Agriculture (President of the Board of Agriculture) , which he held until the end of Balfour's tenure on December 5, 1905 . He also was on March 14, 1905 Member of the Secret Privy Council ( Privy Council ) . In 1911 he was made Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) and from then on carried the suffix "Sir". He served in the First World War as a Major and honorary colonel of the 3rd Battalion of The Norfolk Regiment . He was later from 1917 to 1919 Chairman of the Committee for Agricultural Wages (Agricultural Wages Board) and in personal union between 1917 and 1919 also Deputy Director of the Food Authority (Deputy Director of Food Production) . In 1917 he was also made Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE).

House of Lords, Marriages and Offspring

Fellowes was elevated to the hereditary nobility of the Peerage of the United Kingdom on July 1, 1921 as Baron Ailwyn , of Honingham, in the County of Norfolk, and was thus a member of the House of Lords until his death . Most recently, he served as deputy chairman of the board of the Great Eastern Railway (GER), director of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) founded in 1921, director of the Norwich Union insurer and the National Provident Association .

His marriage to Agatha Eleanor Augusta Jolliffe, daughter of Hedworth Jolliffe, 2nd Baron Hylton and his wife, Lady Agnes Mary Georgiana Byng, had four sons on February 9, 1886 at St. Paul's Church in Knightsbridge . He was buried in Honingham Church on September 26, 1924 . After his death on September 23, 1924, his eldest son, Lieutenant Colonel Ronald Townshend Fellowes, inherited the title of 2nd Baron Ailwyn. Since he died childless on August 30, 1936, his younger brother, Captain Eric William Edward Fellowes , inherited the title of 3rd Baron Ailwyn. His third son Hedworth George Ailwyn Fellowes fell as a captain in the Indian Army on May 12, 1917 during the First World War. His youngest son, Carol Arthur Fellowes, inherited the title of 4th Baron Ailwyn on March 23, 1976, as his older brother Eric Fellowes, 3rd Baron Ailwyn, died without male descendants. Carol Fellowes, 4th Baron Ailwyn, also died on September 27, 1988 without any descendants, so that the title of Baron Ailwyn expired.

Web links

• Ailwyn Fellowes, 1st Baron Ailwyn at Hansard (English)
• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• Ailwyn Edward Fellowes, 1st Baron Ailwyn on thepeerage.com , accessed August 13, 2017.

predecessor	Office	successor
New title created	Baron Ailwyn 1921-1924	Ronald Fellowes