Geoffrey Hutchinson, Baron Ilford

Geoffrey Clegg Hutchinson, Baron Ilford QC MC TD (born October 14, 1893 in Prestwich , † August 21, 1974 in Cannes , France ) was a British officer , lawyer and politician of the Conservative Party who, with interruptions, was a member of the House of Commons and became a member of the House of Lords in 1962 when Life Peer under the Life Peerages Act 1958 .

Life

First World War, lawyer and local politician

Hutchison, the son of a cotton manufacturer, began after attending Cheltenham College to study at Clare College at the University of Cambridge , which he interrupted at the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 to begin his military service with the Lancashire Fusiliers . For the next four years he found use with the British Expeditionary Force and was awarded the Military Cross for his bravery in 1916 after being wounded .

After the end of the war, Hutchison continued his studies at Clare College and graduated in 1919 with a Master of Arts (MA). After studying law , he was admitted to the bar ( Inns of Court ) of Inner Temple in 1920 and then took up a position as a barrister .

In 1931, Hutchinson began his political career for the Conservative Tories in local politics when he was elected to the council of the Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead , of which he was a member until 1937. During this time he was promoted to captain of the Lancaster Fusiliers on February 22, 1933 and ran for the Conservative Party in the Gower constituency in the general election on November 14, 1935 without success .

Member of the House of Commons and World War II

On 29 June 1937 he was at a by-election ( by-election ) in the constituency Ilford first elected MPs in the House of Commons and represented that constituency until its dissolution in the general election on July 5, 1945 . Between 1937 and 1944, Hutchinson, who was also promoted to major on January 14, 1937 , served as president of the Non-County Boroughs Association , an association in which the Metropolitan Boroughs were organized. For his military and lawyer's services he was in 1938 with the Territorial Decoration Award and the 1939 Attorney General ( Queen's Counsel appointed).

After the start of World War II, Hutchinson was recalled to active military service and was first used in operations of the British Expeditionary Force at the French - Belgian border, before 1941 the War Office ( War Office was transferred), where he until reaching the age limit at 17 November 1945 served as assistant assistant to the then military secretaries Lieutenant General Arthur Floyer-Acland and Lieutenant General Colville Wemyss .

As a member of the House of Commons, he served as a member of the Select Committee on National Expenditure in 1942 and was also a member of the Speaker's Committee in 1944 . In addition, Hutchison continued to be active in local politics and was not only a member of the London County Council (LCC) as representative of Hampstead from 1944 to 1952 and also chairman of the LCC's finance committee from 1944 to 1949, but also became vice-president of the 1944 Association of local associations ( Association of Municipal Corporations ) selected.

Post-war period, re-election to the lower house and member of the upper house

After the end of the war, he ran in the first general election after the Second World War on July 5, 1945 for the new constituency of Ilford North , but was defeated by the candidate of the Labor Party Mabel Ridealgh . In the following years he was a temporary member of the board of directors of Christ's Hospital and in 1947 became director of the Colne Valley Water Company Plc and in 1950 president of the British Waterworks Association .

In the general election on February 23, 1950 , Hutchison, the 1946 so-called "Bencher" of the Inner Temple Bar Association and on May 1, 1948 Honorary Colonel of the 5th  Battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers, ran again in the constituency of Ilford North and this time defeated the constituency owner Mabel Ridealgh with around 8,500 votes ahead. He represented that constituency after his re-election in the general election on October 25, 1951 until his mandate waiver 1954. During this time he was in 1951 and 1953 Member of the Joint Committee Parliament for consolidations and laws ( Joint Committee on Consolidation and Bills ).

In addition to his parliamentary activities, Hutchinson was 1951 President of the Association of Water Companies ( Water Companies Association ) and 1952 Chairman of the Board of the East Surrey Water Company . In 1954, Hutchinson, who had been promoted to a Knight Bachelor degree in 1952 and since then had the suffix "Sir", resigned his mandate as a member of the House of Commons after he became chairman of the National Assistance Board and held that position until 1962. Most recently, Hutchinson was raised to the nobility by a letters patent dated May 14, 1962 as a life peer with the title Baron Ilford , of Bury in the County Palatine of Lancaster, and was thus a member of the House of Lords until his death.

Web links

• Geoffrey Hutchinson at Hansard (English)
• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• Geoffrey Clegg Hutchinson, Baron Ilford, on thepeerage.com , accessed September 12, 2016.
• Entry ( National Portrait Gallery (London) )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 33925, HMSO, London, March 28, 1933, p. 2118 ( PDF , accessed October 20, 2013, English).
2. ↑ London Gazette . No. 34368, HMSO, London, February 5, 1937, p. 793 ( PDF , accessed October 20, 2013, English).
3. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 37364, HMSO, London, November 27, 1945, p. 5746 ( PDF , accessed October 20, 2013, English).
4. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 38353, HMSO, London, July 13, 1948, p. 4071 ( PDF , accessed October 20, 2013, English).
5. ↑ London Gazette . No. 39480, HMSO, London, February 29, 1952, p. 1192 ( PDF , accessed October 20, 2013, English).
6. ↑ London Gazette . No. 42675, HMSO, London, May 15, 1962, p. 3943 ( PDF , accessed October 20, 2013, English).