Hugh Molson, Baron Molson

Arthur Hugh Elsdale Molson, Baron Molson PC (born June 29, 1903 in Chelmsford , Essex , † October 13, 1991 in Westminster , London ) was a British Conservative Party politician who was an intermittent member of the House of Commons for 25 years and 1961 when Life Peer became a member of the House of Lords under the Life Peerages Act 1958 and was Minister of Works between 1957 and 1959 .

Life

Lawyer

Molson was a descendant of the family of John Molson , the founding family of the Molson Brewery , who emigrated from Lincolnshire to Montreal in 1782 . He himself was the son of Major John Elsdale Molson , who between 1918 and 1923 represented the Gainsborough constituency as a Member of the House of Commons , and attended the Old Royal Naval College at Osborne House and then the Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth before joining studies at the New College of the University of Oxford graduated.

Molson, who was President of the Oxford Union in 1925 , worked after graduating from 1926 to 1929 as Political Secretary of the United Chamber of Commerce of India . After his return he ran for the Conservative Tories in the general election on May 30, 1929 in the constituency of Aberdare unsuccessfully for a member of the House of Commons.

He then completed a law degree and was admitted to the bar in 1931 as a barrister at the Inner Temple Bar Association ( Inns of Court ) , whereupon he began working as a lawyer .

Member of the House of Commons

Shortly thereafter, however, he was elected in the lower house elections on October 27, 1931 for the Conservative Party as a member of the House of Commons and represented in this until his defeat in the subsequent election of November 14, 1935 the constituency of Doncaster .

After Alfred Law's death on July 18, 1939, Molson was re-elected to the House of Commons on October 7, 1939 in the necessary by-election in the High Peak constituency and represented the Conservative Party after five re-elections until he resigned on December 31 January 1961 another 21 years as a member of parliament.

During the Second World War , Molson did his military service, initially between 1939 and 1941 in the 36th Searchlight Regiment and then until 1942 as a captain on the staff of a division.

Minister and Member of the House of Lords

After the conservative Tories won the general election on October 25, 1951 , Molson was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Works , David Eccles , by Prime Minister Winston Churchill , and held this post until he became Parliamentary on November 11, 1953 Secretary to the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation , Alex Lennox-Boyd , became. He also held this position under the two successors of Lennox-Boyd, John Boyd-Carpenter and Harold Watkinson , until January 9, 1957, and in 1956 he was also Privy Councilor .

On January 16, 1957, shortly after Harold Macmillan's inauguration as the new Prime Minister , Molson was finally appointed Minister of Labor himself, succeeding Patrick Buchan-Hepburn , and held this office until his replacement by John Hope on October 22, 1959.

After leaving the House of Commons, he was raised to the nobility by a letters patent dated February 21, 1961 as a Life Peer with the title Baron Molson , of High Peak in the County of Derbyshire, and thus belonged to the House of Lords until his death as a member. He later served as chairman from 1968 to 1971 and then from 1971 to 1980 as president of the Campaign to Protect Rural England .

Baron Molson was a Member of the British Parliament for 55 years at the time of his death .

Web links

• Mr Arthur Molson at Hansard (English)
• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• Arthur Hugh Elsdale Molson, Baron Molson, on thepeerage.com , accessed September 12, 2016.
• Entry ( National Portrait Gallery (London) )