| 词条 | William Mackenzie, 1st Baron Amulree |
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| honorific-prefix = The Right Honourable | name = The Lord Amulree | honorific-suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GBE|PC|KC}} | image = Lord Amulree.jpg | imagesize = | caption = | order1 = Secretary of State for Air | term_start1 = 14 October 1930 | term_end1 = 5 November 1931 | monarch1 = George V | primeminister1 = Ramsay MacDonald | predecessor1 = The Lord Thomson | successor1 = The Marquess of Londonderry | birth_date = {{birth date|1860|8|19|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|1942|5|5|1860|8|19|df=yes}} | death_place = | nationality = British | party = Labour National Labour | alma_mater = University of Edinburgh | spouse = Lilian Bradbury (d. 1916) }} William Warrender Mackenzie, 1st Baron Amulree, {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|GBE|PC|KC}} (19 August 1860 – 5 May 1942), known as Sir William Mackenzie between 1918 and 1929, was a British barrister, public servant and Labour, later National Labour, politician. He served as Secretary of State for Air under Ramsay MacDonald between 1930 and 1931. Background and educationAmulree was the son of Robert Robyn, of Scone, Perthshire, and Jean, daughter of Basil Menzies. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh and was called to the Bar, Lincoln's Inn, in 1886.[1] Public careerMackenzie published The Overseer's Handbook in 1889 and became a King's Counsel in 1914.[2] He was appointed to the Order of the British Empire as a Commander (CBE) in 1917 and promoted in the same Order to a Knight Commander (KBE) in 1918.[3] The latter year he became Chairman of the Committee on Production, a position he held until 1919. He was then President of the Industrial Court between 1919 and 1926 and Chairman of the National Wages Board for Railways between 1920 and 1926, of the Industrial Delegation to Canada and the USA between 1926 and 1927 and of the Departmental Committee on the Shop Hours Act 1927. He was promoted within the Order of the British Empire to be a Knight Grand Cross (GBE).[4] Political careerIn 1929 Mackenzie was raised to the peerage as Baron Amulree, of Strathbraan in the County of Perth.[5] In October 1930 he was appointed Secretary of State for Air[6] in Ramsay MacDonald's second Labour government (succeeding the deceased Lord Thomson), with a seat in the cabinet, and was sworn of the Privy Council at the same time.[6] He was one of the few Labour politicians to follow MacDonald into the National Government, where he retained his post until the reconstruction of the government after the November 1931 general election, although not as a member of the Cabinet. Lord Amulree also chaired the Newfoundland Royal Commission in 1933, which prepared a report on the future of Newfoundland as a dominion in the British Empire.[1] FamilyLord Amulree married Lilian, daughter of W. H. Bradbury, in 1897. She died at Cheam, Surrey, in June 1916. Amulree died in May 1942, aged 81, and was succeeded in the barony by his son, Basil, who became a distinguished physician.[1] Styles of address
References1. ^1 2 {{cite web |publisher=The Peerage |title=William Mackenzie, 1st Baron Amulree |url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p2966.htm#i29652 |accessdate=11 September 2016}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Amulree, William Warrender Mackenzie, 1st Baron}}2. ^{{London Gazette |issue=28935 |date=13 October 1914 |page=8125}} 3. ^{{London Gazette |issue=30730 |date=4 June 1918 |page=6686 |supp=y}} 4. ^{{London Gazette |issue=33179 |date=2 July 1926 |page=4409 |supp=y}} 5. ^{{London Gazette |issue=33519 |date=23 July 1929 |page=4850 }} 6. ^1 {{London Gazette |issue=33654 |date=21 October 1930 |page=6397 }} 12 : 1860 births|1942 deaths|Secretaries of State for Air (UK)|Alumni of the University of Edinburgh|Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom|British Queen's Counsel|British people of Scottish descent|Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom|Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath|Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire|Labour Party (UK) hereditary peers|Queen's Counsel 1901–2000 |
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