Henry Hopkinson, 1st Baron Colyton

Henry Hopkinson (back right) with the House of Commons and Envoy to Lebanon , Major General Edward Spears (back left), as well as his wife (center) and the Prime Minister for the Middle East Richard Casey (front right) and his wife (front left) in front of the Ambassador's residence in Beirut (December 1942)

Henry Lennox D'Aubigne Hopkinson, 1st Baron Colyton , PC , CMG , OStJ (born January 3, 1902 , † January 6, 1996 ) was a British diplomat and politician of the Conservative Party who, among other things, was a member of the House of Commons between 1950 and 1956 ( House of Commons ) was. In 1956 he became a peer collected and thus a member of the upper house ( House of Lords ) , where he remained until his death.

Life

Studies and diplomatic career

Hopkinson was the eldest of three sons of the entrepreneur Sir Henry Lennox Hopkinson and his wife Marie Ruan du Bois. His younger brother was Lieutenant Colonel John Montgomerie Hopkinson, while his youngest brother Francis Archibald Hopkinson was a lawyer. During his schooldays at the prestigious Eton College , he was awarded the Royal Humane Society Prize in 1919 after he had saved a person from drowning. After attending school, he completed an undergraduate degree at Trinity College of the University of Cambridge , which he in 1923 with a Bachelor of Arts graduated (BA) with honors. After he entered 1924 in the diplomatic service and was initially 1924-1929 use as Third Secretary at the Embassy in the United States and then from 1929 to 1931 as Second Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( Foreign Office ) . After serving as Second Secretary at the Embassy in Sweden between 1931 and 1932 , he served as Deputy Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary John Simon from 1932 to 1934 .

Hopkinson then worked between 1934 and 1938 as Second Secretary at the High Commission and from 1936 at the Embassy in Egypt and then from 1938 to 1939 as First Secretary at the Legation in Greece , before he was First Secretary in the Secretariat of the War Government from 1939 to 1940 Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was. This was followed between 1940 and 1941, first as the private secretary of the Permanent Undersecretary of State of the Foreign Ministry Alexander Cadogan and from 1941 to 1943 as diplomatic advisor to the State Minister for the Middle East, Oliver Lyttelton, and from March 1942 by his successor as Minister Resident for the Middle East, Richard Casey . He was Envoy Permanent Representative to the Ambassador to Portugal , Ronald Hugh Campbell , between 1943 and 1944 , and in 1944 he became Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) for his services . Most recently, from 1944 until his retirement from the diplomatic service in 1946, he was Deputy High Commissioner in Rome and political advisor to the Allied Commission in Italy .

Member of the House of Commons and House of Lords

After leaving the Foreign Office, Hopkinson acted from 1946 to 1950 as head of the Parliamentary Secretariat of the Conservative Party and, in personal union, as joint director of the research department of the Conservative Tories . In the general election of 23 February 1956 , he was for the Conservative Party as a member of the lower house ( House of Commons ) selected and represented in this by 19 January 1956 constituency Taunton . In his first election, he succeeded the previous constituency owner of the Labor Party , Victor Collins to beat. On November 3, 1951, he was appointed Secretary of Overseas Trade in the third cabinet of Prime Minister Winston Churchill and, after a cabinet reshuffle, on May 7, 1952, he took over the post of Minister of State, Colonial Affairs . He then held this post from April 5 to December 20, 1955 in the cabinet of Prime Minister Anthony Eden . On 23 May 1952 he was also a member of the Secret Privy Council ( Privy Council ) appointed.

After leaving the House of Commons, Young was raised to the hereditary nobility of the Peerage of the United Kingdom by a letters patent dated January 19, 1956 as Baron Colyton , of Farway in the County of Devon and of Taunton in the County of Somerset a member of the House of Lords, to which he belonged until his death. He was also awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique , the Officer's Cross of the Order of Saint John , the command of the Order of Zaire and the Great Star of the Order Paduka Stia Negara of Brunei. He also acted after the Suez War between 1957 and 1960 as chairman of the Anglo-Egyptian Resettlement Board .

Marriage and offspring

Hopkinson was married twice, from November 10, 1927 until her death on April 30, 1953 with Alice Labouisse Eno, whose father Henry Lane Eno taught as an honorary professor at Princeton University . From this marriage the twins Nicholas Henry Eno Hopkinson and Olivia Hopkinson were born on January 18, 1932. In his second marriage he married Barbara Estella Barb on December 11, 1956, although this marriage remained childless. The death of his only son Nicholas Henry Eno Hopkinson in 1991, inherited after his death on January 6, 1996 his son, his grandson Alisdair John Munro Hopkinson , the title of 2nd Baron Colyton.

Web links

• Henry Hopkinson, 1st Baron Colyton in the Hansard (English)
• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• Henry Lennox D'Aubigne Hopkinson, 1st Baron Colyton, on thepeerage.com , accessed July 24, 2018.
• PRIVY COUNSELLORS 1915-1968 in Leigh Rayment Peerage

Remarks

1. ↑ His Parliamentary Private Secretary during his tenure as Minister of State in the Colonial Ministry was the Member of the House of Commons and later Secretary General of the Council of Europe Peter Smithers .

predecessor	Office	successor
Title created	Baron Colyton 1956-1996	Alisdair Hopkinson