George Newton, 1st Baron Eltisley
George Douglas Cochrane Newton, 1st Baron Eltisley KBE MP (14 July 1879 – 2 September 1942) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.
He was appointed High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire for 1909.[1] Following the First World War, he joined the Rural Reconstruction in the Department of the Ministry of Reconstruction. He was invested as a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1919 New Year Honours.[2]
and was then elected as Member of Parliament for Cambridge at a by-election in 1922 following the resignation of the Conservative MP Sir Eric Geddes.
Newton retained the seat at the 1922 general election, and was re-elected at four further elections until he was elevated to the peerage in 1934 as Baron Eltisley, of Croxton in the County of Cambridge.[3] The title became extinct on his death in September 1942, aged 63.
References
- ^ "No. 28229". The London Gazette. 2 March 1909.
- ^ "No. 31114". The London Gazette (invalid
|supp=(help)). 8 January 1919. - ^ "No. 34015". The London Gazette. 16 January 1934.
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [self-published source] [better source needed]
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
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