Sydney Arnold, 1st Baron Arnold

Sydney Arnold, 1st Baron Arnold (13 January 1878 – 3 August 1945) was a British Liberal Party politician who later joined the Labour Party and served as a government minister.

Educated at Manchester Grammar School, he was elected in 1912 as Member of Parliament for Holmfirth in what was then the West Riding of Yorkshire at a by-election following the resignation of the long-serving Liberal MP Henry Wilson. When that constituency was abolished for the 1918 general election, he was elected for the new Penistone constituency. He resigned that seat in 1921, and subsequently joined the Labour Party.

He was ennobled in 1924 as Baron Arnold, of Hale in the County of Chester, and served as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies in Ramsay MacDonald's short-lived 1924 Labour Government, and as Paymaster-General from 1929 to 6 March 1931 in Macdonald's second government.

In the late 1930s he was a member of the Parliamentary Pacifist Group.

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Sydney Arnold

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Henry Wilson	Member of Parliament for Holmfirth 1912–1918	Constituency abolished
New constituency	Member of Parliament for Penistone 1918–1921	Succeeded by William Gillis
Political offices
Preceded by William Ormsby-Gore	Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies 1924	Succeeded by William Ormsby-Gore
Preceded by The Earl of Onslow	Paymaster-General 1929–1931	Succeeded by (office vacant), then Tudor Walters
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation	Baron Arnold 1924–1945	Extinct