Bolton Eyres-Monsell, 1st Viscount Monsell

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Bolton Meredith Eyres-Monsell, 1st Viscount Monsell, 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 Bt. Bolton Monsell took the name Eyres upon his marriage to Caroline Eyres.

Eyres-Monsell served as Member of Parliament for the Evesham Division of Worcestershire from January 1910 general election to 1935. He became First Lord of the Admiralty in 1931.

He was created Viscount Monsell in 1935, retaining his office in government until 1936.

Lord Monsell's daughter, the Hon. Joan Eyres-Monsell, was married for the second time in 1968 to Patrick Leigh Fermor, the traveller and author.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Charles Wigram Long	Member of Parliament for Evesham January 1910–1935	Succeeded by Rupert de la Bère
Political offices
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 Eyres-Monsell