Cecil Norton, 1st Baron Rathcreedan

Cecil Norton, 1st Baron Rathcreedan (1921)

Cecil William Norton, 1st Baron Rathcreedan (* 23. June 1850 , † 7. December 1930 ) was a British politician of the Liberal Party , among others, from 1892 to 1916 member of the House ( House of Commons ) was. Between 1931 and 1935 he was Minister of Health. In 1916 he was a Baron Rathcreedan raised to the hereditary nobility and thus a member of the upper house ( House of Lords ) , where he remained until his death.

Life

Norton, a son of the clergyman Reverend William Norton and his wife Caroline Theresa Riddock, graduated from school at Trinity College Dublin and an officer training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst . In the following years he served as an officer in the 5th Royal Irish Lancers cavalry regiment and was finally promoted to captain . At the end of his military career he was employed as a brigade major in the cavalry in the Aldershot garrison .

In the general election of July 4, 1892 , he was elected to the Liberal Party as a member of the House of Commons and represented the Newington West constituency until January 3, 1916 . On December 21, 1905, he took over the post of Lord Commissioner of the Treasury ( Junior Lord of the Treasury ) in the government of Prime Minister Henry Campbell-Bannerman and held this position between April 6, 1908 and July 7, 1909 in the first cabinet that followed by Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith . In the course of a cabinet reshuffle, he replaced Henry Norman as Assistant Postmaster-General on February 20, 1910 and held this post until May 25, 1915.

After retiring from the House of Norton was a Letters Patent of 27 January 1916 as Baron Rathcreedan , of Belle Hatch Park in the County of Oxford, hereditary peer of the Peerage of the United Kingdom raised and thus the House as a member of Lords, the he belonged until his death. In the government of Prime Minister David Lloyd George he had between January 27, 1919 and March 31, 1921 the unpaid post as Deputy Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Munitions (Assistant Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions) .

Norton was married twice, from August 18, 1880 to her death on January 11, 1898 to Cecilia Lafayette Kennedy. From this marriage the daughter Felicie Norton was born. In his second marriage he married Marguerite Cecil Huntington on July 21, 1903, daughter of the former MP and later Baronet Charles Huntington . From this marriage came the daughter Sylvia Beatrice Norton, the eldest son Charles Patrick Norton , who inherited the title of 2nd baron on his death, and the younger son Michael Adrian Norton.

Web links

• Mr Cecil Norton at Hansard (English)
• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• Cecil William Norton, 1st Baron Rathcreedan, on thepeerage.com , accessed July 26, 2018.

predecessor	Office	successor
New title created	Baron Rathcreedan 1916-1930	Charles Patrick Norton