John Siddeley, 1st Baron Kenilworth

John Davenport Siddeley, 1st Baron Kenilworth (born August 5, 1866 in Cheadle Hulme , † November 3, 1956 in Jersey ) was a British industrialist who was active in the fields of automobiles, aircraft and aircraft engines.

Siddeley joined the Humber Cycle Company in 1892 but soon moved to Dunlop . In 1902 he set up his own business with the Siddeley Autocar Company and initially imported Peugeot vehicles to England. However, he soon began to develop his own vehicles. His company was taken over by Wolseley in 1905 . Since Siddeley could not agree on the further technical development with Herbert Austin , the owner, Austin left the company. Siddeley led the company now called Wolseley-Siddeley until 1909. Then he gave up Wolseley-Siddeley and moved to the Deasy Motor Company . Siddeley remained employed in the successor company until 1935, which after the merger with Armstrong was now called Armstrong-Siddeley .

In 1918 he was inducted into the Order of the British Empire as Commander . In 1932 he was promoted to Knight Bachelor . In 1937 he acquired Kenilworth Castle . On June 10, 1937 he was raised to hereditary peer as Baron Kenilworth , of Kenilworth in the County of Warwick , and thereby became a member of the House of Lords .

Web links

• Steven Morewood: Siddeley, John Davenport. In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of December 2018 (not viewed).
• John Davenport Siddeley, 1st Baron Kenilworth on thepeerage.com

predecessor	title	successor
New title created	Baron Kenilworth 1937-1956	Cyril Siddeley