Jonah Walker-Smith

Sir Jonah Smith Walker-Smith ( November 1, 1874 - February 23, 1964 ) was a British politician.

Life

Walker-Smith was born as Jonah Smith Smith . From 1919 to 1925 he served on the Board of Directors of the Scottish Regional Government for Housing and Town Planning . In 1922, he was from Gray's Inn as a barrister admitted and 1925 for Knight Bachelor beaten.

In the general election in 1931 , he succeeded in his constituency Barrow-in-Furness and to move into the House of Commons for the Conservative Party . There he kept his seat until the elections in 1945 .

Walker-Smith was a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers , the Institution of Civil Engineers and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors . In 1938 he helped the Aussiger Petscheks to protect part of their assets in Germany and Czechoslovakia from Aryanization and expropriation by the National Socialists by appearing as the alleged owner and purchaser of the Petschek property.

Walker Smith was married from 1905 until his death. He had three children, his youngest son being the politician Derek Walker-Smith, Baron Broxbourne .

Web links

Jonah Walker-Smith at Hansard (English)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Jonah Smith Walker-Smith on thepeerage.com , accessed September 18, 2016.
↑ Götz Aly et al. (Ed.): The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 : German Reich and Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, September 1939-September 1941. Oldenbourg Verlag , Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-58524-7 , P. 223 ( online (accessed February 25, 2015))

personal data
SURNAME	Walker-Smith, Jonah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Walker-Smith, Jonah Smith (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British politician
DATE OF BIRTH	November 1, 1874
DATE OF DEATH	February 23, 1964

[thepeerage-1] Jonah Smith Walker-Smith on thepeerage.com , accessed September 18, 2016.

[2] Götz Aly et al. (Ed.): The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 : German Reich and Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, September 1939-September 1941. Oldenbourg Verlag , Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-58524-7 , P. 223 ( online (accessed February 25, 2015))