Sydney Arnold, 1st Baron Arnold

Sydney Arnold, 1st Baron Arnold (born January 13, 1878 in Altrincham , Cheshire , † August 3, 1945 ) was a British politician of the Liberal Party and later the Labor Party , who was Paymaster General between 1929 and 1931 .

Life

Arnold completed his school education at the Grammar School in Manchester and joined the company of his father WA Arnold & Sons as a stockbroker in 1900 and worked for it until 1921. During this time, he was 1904 to 1922 a member of the Stock Exchange of Manchester (Manchester Stock Exchange) .

In 1910 Arnold ran for the Liberal Party in the constituency Holderness unsuccessfully for a seat in the House of Commons , but was defeated by the constituency owner Arthur Wilson . On June 20, 1912, he was elected as the successor to long-time MP Henry Wilson in the constituency of Holmfirth as a member of the House of Commons and represented this constituency until its dissolution on December 14, 1918. During the tenure of Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith , he was only Parliamentary Private Secretary in 1914 Minister of Education (President of the Board of Education) and then financial secretary to the Treasury (financial secretary of the Treasury) .

In the general election of December 14, 1918 , Arnold was re-elected as a member of the House of Commons for the Liberal Party in the newly created constituency of Penistone and was a member of the House of Commons until his voluntary resignation for health reasons on February 15, 1921.

Arnold, who joined the Labor Party in 1922, was raised to the hereditary nobility by a letters patent dated February 12, 1924 as Baron Arnold , of Hale in the County of Chester , and was thus a member of the House of Lords until his death on.

During the first term of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald , he served in 1924 as Parliamentary Undersecretary of State in the Colonial Office ( Colonial Office ) . On June 8, 1929, Arnold was appointed by Prime Minister MacDonald as Paymaster General in his second cabinet and belonged to this until his resignation because of the free trade policy of the government, which was reorganized as the National Government on August 25, 1931 . In 1938 he resigned from the Labor Party.

Since he remained unmarried and without male descendants, the title of Baron Arnold expired on his death.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The London Gazette : No. 32907, p. 1266 , February 12, 1924.

Web links

• Sydney Arnold at Hansard (English)
• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• Entry in Leighrayment
• Sydney Arnold, 1st and last Baron Arnold on thepeerage.com , accessed August 18, 2015.

predecessor	Office	successor
New title created	Baron Arnold 1924-1945	Title expired