Noel Noel-Buxton, 1st Baron Noel-Buxton

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Noel Noel-Buxton, 1st Baron Noel-Buxton

Noel Edward Noel-Buxton, 1st Baron Noel-Buxton , PC (born January 9, 1869 in London , † September 12, 1948 ibid) was a British politician of the Liberal Party and later the Labor Party , who was a member for 17 years with interruptions of the House of Commons as well as 1924 and again between 1924 and 1929 Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries. In 1930 he was raised to hereditary peer as Baron Noel-Buxton and was a member of the House of Lords until his death .

Life

Family origins and unsuccessful lower house candidacy in 1900

Noel Edward Buxton was one of ten children and the second eldest son of Sir Thomas Buxton, 3rd Baronet , who was also a Member of the House of Commons between 1865 and 1869 and Governor of South Australia from 1895 to 1899 , and his wife, Lady Victoria Noel, a daughter by Charles Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough . His older brother Thomas Buxton, 4th Baronet, inherited the title of 4th Baronet , of Belfield in the County of Dorset, in 1915  . His older sister Edith Frances Buxton was married to Walter Hepburne-Scott, 9th Lord Polwarth . His younger brother Charles Roden Buxton was also a member of the House of Commons for a time, while his other younger brother Harold Jocelyn Buxton was a clergyman of the Church of England and between 1933 and 1947 Bishop of the Church of England in Gibraltar . The youngest brother was the officer and attorney Leland William Wilberforce Buxton, father of Aubrey Buxton, Baron Buxton of Alsa .

After attending the renowned Harrow School, Noel Edward Buxton began studying at Trinity College at the University of Cambridge , which he completed with a Master of Arts (MA). He then worked in government service and ran for the Liberal Party in the Ipswich constituency in the general election in 1900 , but won a close election after the other Liberal Party candidate Daniel Ford Goddard (4557 votes, 25.9 percent) and the candidate of the Conservative Party , Charles Dalrymple (4,527 votes, 25.8 percent) took third place with 4,283 votes (24.4 percent) and was thus just ahead of the other candidate of the Conservative Tories , JFP Rawlinson (4,207 votes, 23.9 percent) ).

Member of the House of Commons

On June 1, 1905 Buxton for the Liberal Party in a by charging the former MPs was Ernest William Beckett became necessary to 2nd Baron Grimthorpe election (by-election) in the constituency Whitby for the first time a member of the member of the House ( House of Commons ) , but already lost this constituency in the subsequent general election on January 12, 1906 to Beckett's brother and Conservative Party candidate, Gervase Beckett . In the general election on January 15, 1910 , he was again elected to the House of Commons for the Liberal Party in the Norfolk Northern constituency. He was able to prevail with 5189 votes (53 percent) against the candidate of the Conservative Party Douglas King , who received 4604 votes (47 percent). In the subsequent general election on December 3, 1910 , he was able to defend this constituency with 5187 votes (53.6 percent) against Douglas King, who this time received 4491 votes (46.4 percent). However, he lost the constituency in the general election on December 14, 1918 with 9061 votes (49.4 percent) just under the now for Independent Unionist candidate King, who got 9274 votes (50.6 percent).

In the general election on November 15, 1922 , Noel Buxton, who had meanwhile changed to the Labor Party , was re-elected to the House of Commons in the constituency of Norfolk Northern with 12,004 votes (52.2 percent) and this time beat the Unionist candidate Party Roger Bowan Crewdson (10,975 votes, 47.8 percent). In the subsequent general election on December 6, 1923 , he was able to defend the constituency with 12,278 votes (57.6 percent) against the candidate of the Unionist Party Brian Smith (9022 votes, 42.4 percent). In the general election on October 29, 1924 , he again won the constituency with 11,978 votes (48.7 percent) and stood up against the candidate of the Unionist Party Thomas Cook (9,974 votes, 40.6 percent) and the Liberal Party Maurice Alexander ( 2637 votes, 10.7 percent).

Minister and Member of the House of Lords

His wife Lucy Noel-Buxton, Baroness Noel-Buxton was also a member of the House of Commons between 1930 and 1931 and from 1945 to 1950.

In the first MacDonald administration , served between January 23, 1924 and November 4, 1924 as Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries . He was also a member of the Secret Privy Council on January 23, 1924 ( Privy Council ) called In the general election on May 30, 1929 , he was in the constituency of Norfolk Northern with 14,544 votes (47.5 percent) last time re-elected as member of the House of Commons and This time won against the Unionist candidate Thomas Cook (12,661 votes, 41.3 percent) and the candidate of the Liberal Party Zelia Hoffman (3407 votes, 11.1 percent). In the second MacDonald government he was again Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries on June 8, 1929 and held this ministerial office until his resignation on June 5, 1930, whereupon Christopher Addison took his place.

After leaving the government, Buxton also resigned his House of Commons mandate on June 17, 1930 and was then named Baron Noel-Buxton , of Aylsham in the County of Norfolk, by a letters patent of June 17, 1930 in the Peerage of the United Kingdom , raised to hereditary peerage and thus belonged to the House of Lords for life. In order to be able to accept this title, he had his family name changed from "Buxton" to "Noel-Buxton". In the by-election on July 9, 1930, which became necessary after his departure from the House of Commons, his wife Lucy Noel-Buxton, Baroness Noel-Buxton , with whom he had been married since April 30, 1914, was elected in the constituency of Norfolk Northern with 14,821 votes (50th , 3 percent) elected to the House of Commons and prevailed against Thomas Cook, who is now running for the Conservative Party , who received 14,642 votes (49.7 percent). However, the Baroness Noel-Buxton lost with 13,035 votes (39.47 percent) the constituency to Cook in the general election on October 27, 1931 , with Cook received 19,988 votes (60.53 percent).

Marriage and offspring

His marriage to Lucy Edith Burn, daughter of Major Henry Pelham Burn and his wife Janet Edith Orr Ewing on April 30, 1914, resulted in six children. When he died on September 12, 1948, his eldest son Rufus Alexander Buxton inherited the title of 2nd Baron Noel-Buxton. His second son, Christopher Arthur Noel-Buxton, Lieutenant in the 2nd Royal Lancers Cavalry Regiment , was killed in a riding accident on September 17, 1940, while the third son, Michael Barnett Noel-Buxton, was Captain of the Royal Artillery and an officer in the administration of the Gold Coast Colony . The eldest daughter Lydia Victoria Noel-Buxton died on October 10, 1933 at the age of 33. Other children were the daughters Jane Elizabeth Buxton and Sarah Edith Noel-Buxton.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://spartacus-educational.com/TUbuxtonN.htm
  2. ↑ GOVERNMENT MACDONALD
  3. ↑ PRIVY COUNSELLORS 1915--1968 in Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
  4. ↑ GOVERNMENT MACDONALD 2
predecessor Office successor
New title created Baron Noel-Buxton
1930-1948 		Rufus Buxton
personal data
SURNAME Noel-Buxton, Noel, 1st Baron Noel-Buxton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Noel-Buxton, Noel Edward, 1st Baron Noel-Buxton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, MP and peer
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1948
Place of death London