John Denison, 1st Viscount Ossington

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John Evelyn Denison

John Evelyn Denison, 1st Viscount Ossington (born January 27, 1800 in Nottinghamshire , † March 7, 1873 ) was a British politician of the Liberal Party and speaker of the House of Commons .

Study and family

The son of the House of Commons John Denison graduated from school at Eton College to study at Christ Church (Oxford) .

In 1827 he married the daughter of Lord Privy Seal and Minister without portfolio William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland .

Political career

MP

He began his political career in 1823 when he was elected a member of the House of Commons. There he represented the interests of the Whig of the constituency of Newcastle-under-Lyme until 1826 . In 1826 he was elected MP for the Hastings constituency. In 1830 he ran unsuccessfully in the constituencies of Newcastle-under-Lyme and Liverpool . However, in 1831 he was re-elected as MP for the constituency of Nottinghamshire . After constituency reform , the Reform Act 1832 , he was elected to the House of Commons as a member of the constituency of South Nottinghamshire. In the general election of 1837, however, he lost his seat. In 1841 he succeeded in returning to the House of Commons, where he represented the constituency of Malton until 1857 and then until 1872 the constituency of North Nottinghamshire.

Speaker of Parliament and member of the House of Lords

During the reign of George Canning from April 12 to August 8, 1827, the shortest term of any British Prime Minister, he held a minor position as advisor to the Duke of Clarence , then Lord High Admiral .

In April 1857 he was surprisingly appointed as the successor to Charles Shaw-Lefevre as Speaker of the House of Commons. He was re-elected three times in this office before stepping down in February 1872. As a spokesman, he mainly represented the positions of traditional large landowners and the Church of England . He was also a close friend and political ally of the three-time Prime Minister Earl of Derby and the multiple Minister George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll . During his tenure, he made a statement on the valuation of speakers' votes in votes, which became part of parliamentary law as Speaker Denison's Rule. Henry Brand was his successor as Speaker of the House of Commons .

After his resignation as speaker of parliament, he was traditionally elevated to the hereditary nobility on February 13, 1872 . He bore the title of Viscount Ossington , of Ossington in the County of Nottingham and was, as such, the upper house ( House of Lords on). However, he refused the usual pension of a House Speaker that was offered to him. Since he died childless on March 7, 1873, his title of nobility expired after only thirteen months.

publication

In 1899, the memoir Notes from my Journal when Speaker of the House of Commons, taken from his diary, was published posthumously . His collected writings are in the archives of the University of Nottingham .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Catalog of the Papers of J. Evelyn Denison, Viscount Ossington in the Denison Collection ( English ) The University of Nottingham. Archived from the original on February 8, 2008. Retrieved May 22, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Denison, John, 1st Viscount Ossington
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ossington, John Evelyn Denison, 1st Viscount
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Liberal Party politician, Speaker of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Nottinghamshire
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1873