Bolton Eyres-Monsell, 1st Viscount Monsell
Bolton Meredith Eyres-Monsell, 1st Viscount Monsell, GBE, PC (22 February 1881 – 21 March 1969) was a British Conservative Party politician who served as Chief Whip until 1931 and then as First Lord of the Admiralty.
His parents were Lt.Col. Bolton James Alfred Monsell, a soldier and a Chief Constable in the Metropolitan Police, and Mary Beverley, daughter of Sir Edmund Ogle, 6th Baronet. Bolton Monsell took the name Eyres upon his marriage to Caroline Mary Sybil Eyres in 1904.
Eyres-Monsell served as Member of Parliament for the Evesham Division of Worcestershire from January 1910 general election to 1935. He was Civil Lord of the Admiralty from April 1921 to October 1922; then Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty until May 1923, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury from July 1923 to January 1924, and again from November 1924 to June 1929 and from September 1931 to November 1931. He became First Lord of the Admiralty in 1931, retaining his office in government until 1936.[1]
He was created GBE in 1929 and Viscount Monsell in 1935.[1]
Lord Monsell's second daughter, the Hon. Joan Eyres-Monsell (1912–2003),[2] was married for the second time in 1968 to Patrick Leigh Fermor, the traveller and author.
A suburb of Leicester is named Eyres Monsell after him; the council estate was built on land he had owned before it was compulsorily purchased in the early 1950s.
[edit] References
- ^ a b Cameron Hazlehurst, Sally Whitehead, and Christine Woodland (1996). "Sir Bolton Meredith Eyres-Monesell, 1st Viscount Monsell". A guide to the papers of British cabinet ministers, 1900–1964. Cambridge University Press. pp. 272. ISBN 0521587433.
- ^ Her obituary in The Independent
[edit] External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Bolton Eyres-Monsell
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by Charles Wigram Long |
Member of Parliament for Evesham January 1910–1935 |
Succeeded by Rupert de la Bère |
| Political offices | ||
| Preceded by Robert Sanders |
Treasurer of the Household 1919–1921 |
Succeeded by George Gibbs |
| Preceded by Leo Amery |
Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty 1922–1923 |
Succeeded by Archibald Boyd-Carpenter |
| Preceded by Leslie Wilson |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury 1923–1924 |
Succeeded by Ben Spoor |
| Preceded by Ben Spoor |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury 1924–1929 |
Succeeded by Tom Kennedy |
| Preceded by Sir Austen Chamberlain |
First Lord of the Admiralty 1931–1936 |
Succeeded by Sir Samuel Hoare |
| Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
| Preceded by New Creation |
Viscount Monsell 1935–1969 |
Succeeded by (Henry Bolton) Graham Eyres-Monsell |
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