词条 | Geoffrey Hutchinson, Baron Ilford |
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| honorific-prefix = | name = Baron Ilford | honorific-suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|sep= |QC|MC|TD}} | image = | caption = | birth_date ={{Birth date|df=yes|1893|08|14}} | birth_name = Geoffrey Clegg Hutchinson | birth_place = Prestwich, Bury, Greater Manchester | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1974|08|21|1893|08|14}} |death_place = Cannes, France | office = Member of Parliament for Ilford North | term_start = 23 February 1950 | term_end = 1954 | predecessor = Mabel Ridealgh | successor = Thomas Iremonger | office2 = Member of Parliament for Ilford | term_start2 = 29 June 1937 | term_end2 = 5 July 1945 | predecessor2 = George Hamilton | successor2 = Constituency abolished | parliament = United Kingdom | party = Conservative | spouse = {{marriage|Janet Bidlake|1919}} | children = | parents = | nationality = British | alma_mater = Cheltenham College Clare College, Cambridge | nickname = }} Major Geoffrey Clegg Hutchinson, Baron Ilford QC, MC, TD (14 October 1893 – 21 August 1974)[1] was a British soldier, a barrister and Conservative Party politician. Background and military careerBorn in Prestwich, he was the youngest son of the cotton manufacturer Henry Omerod Hutchinson and his wife Elizabeth Clegg.[1] He was educated at Cheltenham College and went then to Clare College, Cambridge, graduating with a Master of Arts in 1919.[3] In 1920 Hutchinson was called to the bar by the Inner Temple and went to the Northern Circuit.[4] He was nominated a Queen's Counsel in 1939 and was selected a bencher in 1946.[4] With the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, Hutchinson joined the Lancashire Fusiliers.[4] He was attached to the British Expeditionary Force until the end of the war and during this time was wounded.[4] In 1916 he was decorated with the Military Cross[4] and in 1933 obtained a captaincy.[2] He was promoted to major in 1937[3] and was awarded the Territorial Decoration in the next year.[4] After the begin of the Second World War he was reactivated in 1940 and sent with the then Expeditionary Force to the Franco-Belgian border.[4] Hutchinson was allocated to the War Office in the following year, where he served as deputy assistant to the Military Secretary.[4] He retired in 1945 having reached the age limit[4] and was appointed honorary colonel of the 5th battalion of his former regiment in 1948.[5] Political careerIn 1931 Hutchinson joined Hampstead Borough Council, on which he sat for six years.[16] Subsequently he served as president of the Non-County Boroughs Association until 1944 and chaired then the finance committee of the London County Council until 1949.[6] Hutchinson continued to represent Hampstead in the County Council until 1952.[16] He was chosen vice-president of the Association of Municipal Corporations in 1944.[7] After unsuccessfully running for Gower in 1935, Hutchinson entered the House of Commons in 1937, retaining Ilford for the Conservatives at a by-election.[8][9] He represented that constituency until it was abolished in 1945,[9] That year he ran for the new seat of Ilford North and lost, but won it in 1950 and 1951.[8] In Parliament, Hutchinson became a member of the Select Committee on National Expenditure in 1942 and of the Speaker's Committee in 1944.[4] He sat in the Joint Committee on Consolidation, &c., Bills in 1951 and again two years later.[4] Hutchinson was almoner and governor of Christ's Hospital.[10] In 1947 he became director of the Colne Valley Water and three years later was president of the British Waterworks Association.[4] He worked in the same function for the Water Companies Association from 1951 and chaired the East Surrey Water Company from the subsequent year.[11] He resigned from Parliament in 1954, when he became chairman of the National Assistance Board, a position he held until 1964.[11][12] He received a knighthood in 1952[13] and he became a life peer with the title Baron Ilford, of Bury, in the County Palatine of Lancaster on 14 May 1962.[14] FamilyHutchinson married Janet Bidlake, youngest daughter of Henry Frederick Keep in 1919.[1] He died in Cannes in France in 1974.[8] Notes1. ^1 Fox-Davies (1929), p. 1013 2. ^{{ London Gazette | issue = 33925 |page=2118 | date = 28 March 1933 }} 3. ^{{ London Gazette | issue = 34368 |page=793 | date = 5 February 1937 }} 4. ^{{ London Gazette | issue = 37364 |page=5746 | date = 23 November 1945 | supp = y }} 5. ^{{ London Gazette | issue = 38353 |page=4071 | date = 13 July 1948 | supp = y }} 6. ^Young (1975), p. 18 7. ^1 2 Young (1975), p. 19 8. ^1 2 3 Stenton and Lees (1981), p. 183 9. ^1 2 Dod (1966), p. 144 10. ^Who's Who (1963), p. 1551 11. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Who's Who (1963), p. 1552 12. ^{{cite web |title=Ilford, Baron |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U155979 |website=Who Was Who |publisher=Oxford University Press}} 13. ^{{ London Gazette | issue = 39480 |page=1192 | date = 29 February 1952 }} 14. ^{{ London Gazette | issue = 42675 |page=3943 | date = 15 May 1962 }} References{{columns-list|colwidth=30em|
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