Davison Dalziel, 1st Baron Dalziel of Wooler

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Davison Alexander Dalziel, 1st Baron Dalziel of Wooler (born October 17, 1852 - April 18, 1928 ), was a British journalist, politician and businessman.

Life

Dalziel was born the son of Davison Octavian Dalziel and Helen Gaulter, he came from a family from the Scottish Lowlands and Northumberland , whose members were best known as engravers and draftsmen .

Dalziel went to Australia as a young man in the early 1870s . In Sydney he worked as a journalist for the Sydney Echo newspaper . There he married his wife Harriet Dunning in January 1876. He then went to the USA , where he was also active in the newspaper industry from 1880. In 1890 he went back to England and founded Dalziel's News Agency , a press agency . Marginally involved in the Panama scandal, the agency had to close again in 1893.

Dalziel acquired shares in the Evening Standard and other newspapers in the following years , and he was also active as an investor in various other economic sectors. From around 1900 Dalziel expanded its activities beyond the newspaper business and turned to the transport sector. In 1903 he had already become a member of the board of directors of Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (CIWL). In 1906, according to other sources, not until 1908, he acquired the British subsidiary of the American Pullman Palace Car Company , the Pullman Car Company (PCC). This included not only the fleet of cars and the contracts still running with the railroad companies, but also the right to use the name "Pullman" for cars and trains and to use the name accordingly throughout Europe. Dalziel quickly expanded the network of carriage and train routes in Great Britain. He discontinued the few sleeping cars that the British Pullman company had recently operated on the Highland Railway in the northern Highlands. He concentrated the business on complete day trains with Pullman cars such as the Brighton Belle between London and Brighton as well as Pullman cars used as through cars in normal express trains. The design as a salon-like open space and the on-site service , for which some of the cars were given kitchens, were characteristic of the cars.

In 1915, Dalziel converted the Pullman Car Company into a public company . From 1919 Dalziel was chairman of the CIWL board of directors. As such, he pushed through the introduction of Pullman cars and Pullman Express trains such as the Flèche d'Or and the Étoile du Nord at the CIWL on mainland Europe . In 1925 he sold the majority of the British Pullman Car Company to CIWL - the Pullman company initially became part of the ownership of its former largest competitor, ten years later CIWL acquired the remaining shares. These ownership relationships were withheld by the CIWL until the mid-1970s, and officially the two companies only worked together on a friendly basis. Dalziel was also privately connected with Georges Nagelmackers , the founder of the CIWL; his only daughter Elizabeth married Nagelmacker's only son René in 1903.

In addition to the railway sector, Dalziel invested in the taxi trade and the first bus companies . He became chairman of the General Motor Cab Company , which in 1908 took over the United Motor Cab Company . Before the First World War, the company operated several thousand taxis and various bus routes in the London area. These included luxury buses known as the Pullman Omnibus .

In the years before the First World War, Dalziel was also active as a politician. In the elections to the House of Commons in January 1910, he won the seat of the constituency of Brixton in the London borough of Lambeth as a member of the Tories . He held this until the election in December 1923, in which the Tories lost 86 seats. The Labor government of Ramsay MacDonald only lasted 10 months and in the next election in October 1924 the Conservatives won a clear victory. Dalziel was also able to recapture his constituency in Brixton.

On June 9, 1927, Dalziel resigned from the House of Commons after receiving the Chiltern Hundreds . He died less than a year later.

Tomb of Baron Dalziel of Wooler on the Highgate Cemetery in London district of Camden

His tomb is located on the Highgate Cemetery in London district of Camden .

Nobility titles and medals

Dalziel received various honors and awards for his work. On May 14, 1919 he was ennobled him with the hereditary title Baronet , of Wooler in the County of Northumberland. After leaving the House of Commons, he was raised to hereditary peer on July 4, 1927 as Baron Dalziel of Wooler , of Wooler in the County of Northumberland, and as such a member of the House of Lords . Since he left no male offspring, his titles expired on his death.

In addition, he received other awards:

literature

  • George Behrend: History of Luxury Trains . Orell Füssli, Zurich 1977, ISBN 3-280-00918-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Dalziel on familysearch.org ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on October 10, 2012)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / histfam.familysearch.org
  2. ↑ http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Dalziel-RecordOfWork/
  3. ^ Albert Mühl, Jürgen Klein: Traveling in luxury trains. The International Sleeping Car Society. EK-Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 2006, p. 344
  4. ↑ a b George Behrend: History of the luxury trains. Orell Füssli, Zurich 1977, p. 23
  5. ^ A b c d Albert Mühl: International luxury trains . EK-Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 1991, p. 181
  6. ↑ The Straits Times, An Important Taxi-cab Alliance, August 31, 1908, Page 11 ( Memento of the original of March 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on October 10, 2012)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / newspapers.nl.sg
  7. ^ The Motor Omnibus World, May 14, 1908 (accessed October 10, 2012)
  8. ↑ House of Commons Library, Department of Information Services: Appointments to the Chiltern Hundreds and Manor of Northstead Stewardships since 1850, p. 16 (accessed October 10, 2012; PDF; 112 kB)
  9. ↑ London Gazette . No. 31427, HMSO, London, July 1, 1919, p. 8221 ( PDF , English).
  10. ↑ London Gazette . No. 33292, HMSO, London, July 8, 1927, p. 4406 ( PDF , English).
personal data
SURNAME Dalziel, Davison, 1st Baron Dalziel of Wooler
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dalziel, Davison Alexander, 1st Baron Dalziel of Wooler (full name); Dalziel, Davison Alexander (maiden name); Dalziel, Sir Davison, 1st Baronet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist, politician, Member of the House of Commons and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1852
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1928