William Mabane, 1st Baron Mabane

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William Mabane, 1st Baron Mabane

William Mabane, 1st Baron Mabane , KBE , PC (* 12. January 1895 in Leeds , Yorkshire , † 16th November 1969 ) was a British politician , the 1,931 to 1,945 members of the lower house ( House of Commons ) was as well as various government offices clothed. On 15 June 1962 he became the first  Baron Mabane in the hereditary nobility ( Hereditary peerage ) the Peerage of the United Kingdom raised and belonged until his death in the upper house (House of Lords ) .

Life

William Mabane, son of Joseph Greenwood Mabane and his wife Margaret Steele, attended Woodhouse Grove School and took part in the First World War between 1914 and 1918 as a member of the 13th Yorkshire Regiment . He was wounded and mentioned in the war report because of his military service ( Mentioned in dispatches ) . Most recently, he was appointed captain (Captain) transported. After the end of the war, he first completed an undergraduate degree at Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge , which he completed in 1920 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). A subsequent postgraduate course at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, he completed in 1923 with a Master of Arts (MA).

Mabane, the first member of the Liberal Party had been in the general election on October 27, 1931 in the constituency of Huddersfield for the National Liberal Party for the first time as a member of the lower house ( House of Commons ) elected and was this on until July 5 1945th He was briefly from 1931 to 1932 Parliamentary Private Secretary . On June 7, 1939 he took over the post of Deputy Post Minister (Assistant Postmaster-General) in the fourth National Government and between September 3 and October 24, 1939 he also held the post of Chamberlain's wartime government . After a government reshuffle, he took over the post of Minister for Home Security (Ministry of Home Security) from Alan Lennox-Boyd on October 24, 1939, and held this position until May 10, 1940. In the Churchill war government that was subsequently formed , he took over the post of Parliamentary Secretary to the Home Department on May 10, 1940 and, after a restructuring of the government, on June 3, 1942, as Parliamentary Secretary of State in the Ministry of Food (Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food) . In this capacity, he was on 20 January 1944, a member of the Secret Privy Council ( Privy Council ) . He then served between May 25 and July 26, 1945 as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in the Churchill interim government .

After his departure from the government and the House of Commons, William Mabane was beaten on June 10, 1954 to Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) and from then on carried the suffix "Sir". By a Letters Patent of 15 June 1962, he eventually became the first  Baron Mabane , of Rye, in the County of Sussex, in the hereditary nobility ( Hereditary peerage ) the Peerage of the United Kingdom raised and belonged until his death on November 16, 1969 the house of Lords ( house of Lords ) to.

William Mabane was married twice. In his first marriage he married Louise Tanton in 1918 and was married to her until their divorce in 1926. His second marriage was on March 31, 1944, Stella Jane Duggan. Both marriages remained childless, so that with his death the title of Baron Mabane expired again.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ PRIVY COUNSELLORS 1915--1968 in Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
  2. ↑ KNIGHTS AND DAMES in Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
personal data
SURNAME Mabane, William, 1st Baron Mabane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, MP and peer
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Leeds , Yorkshire
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1969