Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton

Caricature of the Earl of Winterton (1908)

Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton PC ( April 4, 1883 , † August 26, 1962 ) was a British Conservative Party politician who was a member of the House of Commons for 47 years and was the youngest member of the European Parliament ("Baby of the House") the longest serving MP ("Father of the House") was as well as Baron Turnour was a member of the House of Lords .

Life

Turnour came from a noble Irish family and was the son of Edward Turnour, 5th Earl Winterton . On November 11, 1904, he was elected the youngest member ("Baby of the House") of the House of Commons in a by-election at the age of 21. He was a member of the House of Commons until October 25, 1951 and was a Member of the House of Representatives for the constituency of Horsham in West Sussex until the general election on December 14, 1918 , then for the newly formed constituency of Horsham and Worthing and again for the House of Commons elections on July 5, 1945 the restored Horsham constituency . At the beginning of his parliamentary membership he was briefly between 1904 and 1905 Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Financial Secretary of the Admiralty and then between 1906 and 1908 by Joseph Chamberlain .

In 1907 he succeeded his father as Earl Winterton , but did not become a member of the House of Lords, as it was a title of the Peerage of Ireland . During the First World War he served from 1915 to 1916 as a captain in the Sussex Yeomanry and also took part in the Battle of Gallipoli and in combat operations in Egypt , before he was subsequently employed as a major in the Imperial Camel Corps in Egypt from 1916 to 1918 . In 1918 he was in Hejaz with TE Lawrence, known as Lawrence of Arabia .

During his long membership in parliament he was for the first time from October 1922 to January 1924 Undersecretary of State for India in the Conservative Cabinets of Prime Ministers Andrew Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin . Turnour held the office of Undersecretary of State for India again between November 1924 and June 1929 in Baldwin's second cabinet.

In 1931 he was a delegate first to the Conference on Burma and then in 1932 to the Third Conference on India. During the tenure of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain he was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1937 to 1939 and at the same time in 1938 Deputy Secretary of State for Aviation and Vice President of the Aviation Council for some time. He was then Assistant to the Interior Minister in 1938 and Paymaster General in the Chamberlain cabinet in 1939 . In addition, he was chairman and British government representative in the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees between 1938 and 1945 .

After the death of David Lloyd George on March 29, 1945, he was the longest serving member of the lower house "Father of the House" and thus quasi- age president of the House of Commons. In the general election on October 25, 1951, he did not run and left the House of Commons. After his departure, Hugh O'Neill followed him as "Father of the House".

On February 15, 1952, he was raised in the Peerage of the United Kingdom to Baron Turnour , of Shillinglee in the County of Sussex, and was henceforth a member of the House of Lords . Since his 1924 marriage with Monica Wilson (1902-1974), daughter of Charles Wilson, 2nd Baron Nunburnholme , remained childless, this title expired on his death for lack of male successors, while his other titles were given to his third cousin Ronald Chard Turnour fell.

Publications

• West to South in Africa , 1930
• Pre-war , 1932
• Orders of the day , 1953
• Fifty tumultuous years , 1955

Web links

• Viscount Turnour at Hansard (English)
• Winterton, Earl (I, 1766) at Cracroft's Peerage
• Publications (openlibrary.org)
• Newspaper article about Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

predecessor	Office	successor
Edward Turnour	Earl Winterton 1907-1962	Ronald Turnour
New title created	Baron Turnour 1952–1962	Title expired