Hugh Molson, Baron Molson

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(Arthur) Hugh (Elsdale) Molson, Baron Molson PC (29 June 1903 - 13 October 1991) was a British Conservative politician.

The only surviving son of Major John Elsdale Molson, Member of Parliament for Gainsborough from 1918-23, and Mary Leeson, he was educated at the Royal Naval College, Osborne and Dartmouth, at Lancing College, and New College, Oxford. He was President of the Oxford Union in 1925. He became a Barrister-at-Law at the Inner Temple in 1931. He worked as Political Secretary of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of India from 1926-29.

During World War II he served with 36 Searchlight Regiment from 1939-41, and was Staff Captain 11 AA, Division from 1941-42.

He was unsuccessful Conservative candidate in Aberdare in 1929, and sat as Member of Parliament for Doncaster from 1931-35 and for High Peak, Derbyshire from 1939-61. He held Ministerial office as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works from 1951-53, Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation from November 1953-January 1957, and as Minister of Works from 1957-October 1959. He was a Member of the Monckton Commission on Rhodesia and Nyasaland in 1960, and Chairman of the Commission of Privy Counsellors on the dispute between Buganda and Bunyoro in 1962.

He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1956, and was created a Life Peer in 1961 as Baron Molson, of High Peak in the County of Derbyshire.

In later life he was Chairman (1968-71) and President (1971-80) of the Council for the Protection of Rural England.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Wilfred Paling	Member of Parliament for Doncaster 1931–1935	Succeeded by Alfred Short
Preceded by Alfred Joseph Law	Member of Parliament for High Peak 1939–1961	Succeeded by David Walder