Bolton Eyres-Monsell, 1st Viscount Monsell

Bolton Eyres-Monsell Meredith, 1st Viscount Monsell GBE PC (birth name: Bolton Meredith Monsell * 22. February 1881 ; † 21st March 1969 ) was a British politician of the Conservative Party , the 1910-1935 member of the House of Commons was and served as First Lord of the Admiralty from 1931 to 1936 as Lord High Admiral . In 1935, he was as Viscount Monsell in the hereditary nobility raised and belonged until his death in the House of Lords as a member.

Life

Naval officer, Member of the House of Commons

Monsell was the youngest of six children of Colonel Bolton James Alfred Monsell and his wife Mary Beverley Ogle, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Edmund Ogle, 6th Baronet . After finishing school he joined the Royal Navy and was made a sub-lieutenant on July 15, 1900 . In June 1902 he was transferred to the newly built torpedo boat destroyer HMS Success , which was part of the training flotilla in Portsmouth .

On January 15, 1910 Eyres-Monsell was elected as a candidate of the Conservative Party for the first time to a member of the House of Commons and represented the constituency of Evesham until November 14, 1935 . In 1911 he briefly held the position of parliamentary director ( Whip ) of the faction of the conservative Tories in the lower house. During the First World War he was ordered back into active military service in the Royal Navy and was most recently Commander . For his services in combat missions in Egypt , he was awarded the Order of the Nile by the Sultan of Egypt in 1917 .

Junior minister

In the coalition government of Prime Minister David Lloyd George he became Treasurer of the Royal Household in 1919 and was then Civil Lord of the Admiralty between 1921 and the end of Lloyd George's tenure in October 1922 .

In October 1922, Eyres-Monsell was promoted to Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty from Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law . He then served in the first government of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin between July 1923 and January 1924 for the first time as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury and was as such Chief Whip of the Conservative Party. During this time he was also appointed to the Privy Council (PC) in 1923 .

In the second government of Prime Minister Baldwin, he served again between November 1924 and June 1929 as Parliamentary Secretary of the Treasury and Chief Whip of the Tories faction in the House of Commons. In 1929 Eyres-Monsell was made Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) and from then on carried the suffix "Sir". In the grand coalition of Labor Party and Conservative Party ( National Government ) formed by Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald on August 25, 1931 , he assumed the functions of Parliamentary Secretary of the Treasury and Chief Whip of the Tories faction in the House of Commons for the third time from September 1931 .

First Lord of the Admiralty and Member of the House of Lords

As part of a cabinet reshuffle, Prime Minister MacDonald Eyres-Monsell appointed as successor to Austen Chamberlain the office of First Lord of the Admiralty and thus held one of the offices of the Great Officers of State as Lord High Admiral . He held these offices from June 7, 1935 in the third cabinet of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, which he also formed as the National Government .

By a letters patent dated November 30, 1935 Eyres-Monsell was raised as Viscount Monsell , of Leicester in the County of Leicester, in the hereditary nobility (Hereditary Peerage) . This made him a member of the House of Lords, to which he was a member until his death on March 21, 1969. At the time of his death, he had served in the UK Parliament for almost 50 years . In 1936, Viscount Monsell was replaced as First Lord of the Admiralty by Samuel Hoare .

Marriages and offspring

Bolton Meredith Monsell was married twice. On December 3, 1904, he married Caroline Mary Sybil Eyres for the first time and also took her name, so that from then on he was called Eyres-Monsell. From this marriage three daughters and the eldest child his only son Henry Bolton Graham Eyres Monsell , who inherited the title of 2nd Viscount Monsell after his death . The eldest daughter Diana Monsell was married to Alan Stuart Casey, a lieutenant-colonel in the 1st The Royal Dragoons . The second oldest daughter was the photographer Joan Elizabeth Monsell , who was married to the writer and SOE officer Patrick Leigh Fermor . His youngest daughter was Patricia Monsell.

After divorcing his first wife in 1950, Viscount Monsell married Essex Leila French, daughter of Major Edward Gerald Fleming French and granddaughter of Field Marshal John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, on July 25, 1950 . This marriage remained childless.

Web links

• Bolton Eyres-Monsell, 1st Viscount Monsell at Hansard (English)
• Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• Bolton Meredith Eyres Monsell, 1st Viscount Monsell on thepeerage.com , accessed September 11, 2016.

predecessor	Office	successor
New title created	Viscount Monsell 1936-1969	Henry Eyres-Monsell
Austen Chamberlain	First Lord of the Admiralty 1931–1936	Samuel Hoare