Laming Worthington-Evans
Sir Worthington Laming Worthington-Evans, 1st Baronet , GBE , PC (birth name: Laming Evans ; born August 23, 1868 - February 14, 1931 ) was a British Conservative Party politician who , among other things, was a member of the House of Commons between 1910 and 1931 ( House of Commons ) was. He was blockade minister from 1918 to 1919, minister for pensions between 1919 and 1920 and minister without portfolio from 1920 to 1921 . He also served as Minister of War between 1921 and 1922 and again from 1924 to 1929, and from 1923 to 1924 as Minister of Post.
Life
Laming Evans studied law and worked as a solicitor after being admitted to the bar . In the general election in 1906 , he applied for the Conservative Party in the Colchester constituency for a seat in the lower house, but lost the Liberal Party candidate Weetman Pearson with 3122 votes (52.6 percent) to 2812 votes (47.4 percent). In the subsequent general election on January 15, 1910 , he was elected a member of the House of Commons in the Colchester constituency with 3717 votes (56 percent) and represented this constituency after his subsequent re-elections until May 30, 1929. He was Parliamentary Private Secretary between 1915 and 1916 (Parliamentary Private Secretary) of a cabinet member and for some time in 1916 Controller of the Foreign Trade Department . On November 15, 1916 in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom he was given the hereditary title of Baronet , of Colchester in the County of Essex. At the same time he added his family name to Worthington-Evans .
Laming Worthington-Evans served in the Lloyd George government between December 10, 1916 and January 30, 1918 as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions and then from January 30 to July 18, 1918 as Parliamentary and Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions . After a government reshuffle he was between July 18, 1918 and the dissolution of this office on January 10, 1919 Minister of Blockade and then from January 10, 1919 to April 2, 1920 Minister of Pensions (Minister of Pensions) . Furthermore, he was on 4 September 1918 a member of the Secret Privy Council ( Privy Council ) . He was also to 13 February 1921 between the 10 January 1919 Minister without Portfolio (Minister without Portfolio) also Cabinet ministers. In order to further transformation of government Lloyd George, he was born on February 13, 1921 Secretary of War (Secretary of State for War) and has held this ministerial office by 19 October 1,922th
For his services Laming Worthington-Evans was beaten on June 3, 1922 to the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE). In the first Baldwin government he held from May 22, 1923 to January 23, 1924 as Postmaster General (Postmaster-General) the post of Post Minister. From 1924 until his replacement by Hilton Young in 1925, he was the editor of the daily newspaper Financial Times .
In the second Baldwin administration , Worthington-Evans served again as Secretary of War between November 6, 1924 and June 4, 1929. In the general election on May 30, 1929 , he was elected for the last time as a member of the House of Commons in the constituency of Westminster St George’s and was able to prevail over the Labor Party candidate , Joseph George Butler , with 22,448 votes (78.1 percent) the 6,294 votes (21.9 percent) fell. He represented this constituency until his death on February 14, 1931. On his death, his son William Shirley Worthington-Evans inherited the title of 2nd baronet.
Web links
- Mr Worthington Evans at Hansard (English)
- Cameron Hazlehurst, Sally Whitehead, Christine Woodland: A Guide To The Papers of British Cabinet Ministers, 1900–1964 . Series: Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1996, ISBN 0-521-58743-3 , pp. 134 ff.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Baronetage: WORTHINGTON EVANS-of Colchester, Essex at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
- ↑ Privy Counselors 1915–1968 at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
- ^ Government Lloyd George 2 at kolumbus.fi
- ^ Secretary of State for War at rulers.org
- ↑ Knights and Dames at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
- ↑ Government Baldwin at kolumbus.fi
- ↑ Government Baldwin 2 at kolumbus.fi
- ^ Secretary of State for War at rulers.org
| predecessor | title | successor |
|---|---|---|
| New title created | Baronet, of Colchester 1916-1931 |
Shirley Worthington-Evans |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Worthington-Evans, Laming |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Worthington-Evans, Sir Worthington Laming, 1st Baronet (full name); Laming Evans (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British politician, MP and lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 23, 1868 |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 14, 1931 |