Edward Brotherton, 1st Baron Brotherton
Edward Allen Brotherton, 1st Baron Brotherton (1 April 1856 – 21 October 1930),[1] known as Sir Edward Brotherton, Bt, between 1918 and 1929, was an industrialist in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England and a benefactor to the University of Leeds and other causes. He was also a Conservative Party politician, and sat in the House of Commons between 1902 and 1922.
He was born in Ardwick, Manchester, but moved to Wakefield at the age of 22 and lived in Yorkshire thereafter. He married in 1882, but his wife died in childbirth in 1883 and the child shortly afterwards; he did not remarry.
The chemical manufacturing company he founded in Wakefield in 1878 still exists on the same site, as Brotherton Esseco. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Esseco Group based in Trecate, Italy.
In 1927 he donated £100,000 for the building of a new library for the University of Leeds, and the Brotherton Library building is still at the heart of the University Library. He also left his personal collection of books and manuscripts in trust for the University, and the Brotherton Collection is a key section of the University Library, attracting international scholars.
Brotherton was also Member of Parliament (MP) for Wakefield 1902–1910 and 1918–1922. He was first elected at a by-election in 1902, when his predecessor Lord Milton inherited a peerage on the death of his grandfather. He was created a Baronet, of Wakefield in the West Riding of the County of York, in 1918[2] and raised to the peerage as Baron Brotherton, of Wakefield in the County of York, in 1929,[3] for "political, public and charitable causes".[4] The titles became extinct on his death in October 1930, aged 74.
[edit] References
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" [self-published source?][better source needed]
- ^ London Gazette: no. 30958. p. 12249. 18 October 1918.
- ^ London Gazette: no. 33510. p. 4268. 28 June 1929.
- ^ London Gazette: no. 33501. p. 3665. 31 May 1929.
- Donnelly, James (2004), "Brotherton, Edward Allen, Baron Brotherton (1856–1930)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/46948, retrieved 24 September 2007
[edit] External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Edward Brotherton
- Biography on website of Brotherton Esseco
- A podcast about a 14th-century manuscript from the Brotherton collection at the University of Leeds
- Audio Podcast from Astrotalkuk.org. A rediscovery of a copy of the Almagest in the special collections of the Brotherton Library in the University of Leeds.
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Viscount Milton |
Member of Parliament for Wakefield 1902–1910 |
Succeeded by Arthur Harold Marshall |
| Preceded by Arthur Harold Marshall |
Member of Parliament for Wakefield 1918–1922 |
Succeeded by Robert Ellis |
| Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
| New creation | Baron Brotherton 1929–1930 |
Extinct |
- 1856 births
- 1930 deaths
- English businesspeople
- People from Ardwick
- People associated with the University of Leeds
- Conservative Party (UK) MPs
- Members of the United Kingdom Parliament for English constituencies
- UK MPs 1900–1906
- UK MPs 1906–1910
- UK MPs 1918–1922
- English book and manuscript collectors
- Politics of Wakefield
- Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
