Frederick Cawley, 1st Baron Cawley
Frederick Cawley, 1st Baron Cawley , PC , JP (* 9. October 1850 in Priestlands, Bunbury, Cheshire , † thirtieth March 1937 in Berrington Hall, Leominster , Herefordshire ) was a British politician of the Liberal Party , of 1895 to 1918 Member of the House of Commons and from 1916 to 1918 Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster was. After he was raised to Baron Cawley in 1918 , he was a member of the House of Lords until his death in 1937 .
Life
Frederick Cawley, son of Thomas Cawley and his wife Harriet Bird, attended the Aldersey School in Bunbury and Wesley College in Sheffield . He was a wealthy cotton entrepreneur in Lancashire and chairman of the Heaton Mills Bleaching Company in Middleton . He was elected for the first time to the House of Commons on July 13, 1895 for the Liberal Party in the Prestwich constituency and was a member of this until January 15, 1918. He served as a justice of the peace (justice of the peace) for Herefordshire and Lancashire. On December 1, 1906, he was awarded the hereditary title of Baronet , of Prestwich in the County of Lancaster , in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom .
On December 10, 1916, Cawley took over the office of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in the Lloyd George government and held this office until February 10, 1918, when Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook , succeeded him. As such, he became a member of the Privy Council on December 13, 1916 . He also served as chairman of the Liberal Party's War Committee and, after the Battle of Gallipoli, a member of the Dardanelles Commission.
After his departure from the House of Commons on January 15, 1918, Frederick Cawley was raised to hereditary peer by a letters patent from January 16, 1918 in the Peerage of the United Kingdom as Baron Cawley , of Prestwich in the County of Lancaster , whereby he was raised was a member of the House of Lords on his death on March 30, 1937.
On August 24, 1876, he married Elizabeth Smith in Audlum. This marriage resulted in four sons and a daughter. The eldest son Robert Hugh Cawley inherited his title of nobility on his death. The second eldest son Harold Thomas Cawley was a barrister and from 1910 to 1915 also a member of the House of Commons and fell as captain of the 6th Battalion of the Manchester Regiment on September 23, 1915 at the Battle of Gallipoli . The third oldest son, John Stephen Cawley, died as a major in the 1st Cavalry Brigade at the beginning of the First World War on September 1, 1914. His only daughter, Hilda Mary Cawley, was married to Captain Charles Edwin Percival Long. The youngest son Oswald Cawley was also a Member of the House of Commons in 1918 and fell as captain of the Shropshire Yeomanry on August 22, 1918. After his death, he was buried at Eye Leominster on April 2, 1937, leaving a fortune of £ 864,479 .
Web links
- Sir Frederick Cawley at Hansard (English)
- Cawley, Baron (UK, 1918) in Cracroft's Peerage
- Frederick Cawley, 1st Baron Cawley on thepeerage.com , accessed June 12, 2020.
- Cameron Hazlehurst, Sally Whitehead, Christine Woodland: A Guide To The Papers of British Cabinet Ministers, 1900–1964 , Series: Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1996, ISBN 0-521-58743-3 , pp. 90 f.
- Cawley, 1st Baron in Who's Who (online version)
Individual evidence
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| New title created | Baronet, of Prestwich 1906-1937 |
Robert Hugh Cawley |
| New title created |
Baron Cawley 1918-1937 |
Robert Hugh Cawley |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cawley, Frederick, 1st Baron Cawley |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cawley, Sir Frederick, 1st Baronet |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British politician, MP and peer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 9, 1850 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Priestlands, Bunbury, Cheshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 30, 1937 |
| Place of death | Berrington Hall, Leominster , Herefordshire |