Bolton Eyres-Monsell, 1st Viscount Monsell
Bolton Meredith Eyres-Monsell, 1st Viscount Monsell, GBE, PC (22 February 1881 β 21 March 1969) was a British Conservative Party politician who served as Chief Whip until 1931 and then as First Lord of the Admiralty.
Biography
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 in the Royal Navy, and was promoted Sub-lieutenant 15 July 1900.[1] He was elected as Member of Parliament for the Evesham Division of Worcestershire in January 1910 general election, and served until 1935. During the First World War, he again served as a Royal Navy officer, achieving the rank of Commander and was awarded the Order of the Nile by the Sultan of Egypt.[2] 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.[3]
He was created GBE in 1929 and Viscount Monsell in 1935.[3]
Lord Monsell's second daughter, the Hon. Joan Eyres-Monsell (1912β2003),[4] 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.
References
- β The London Gazette: no. 27390. p. 9063. 24 December 1901.
- β London Gazette 19 December 1917
- β 3.0 3.1 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, 1900β1964. Cambridge University Press. p. 272. ISBN 9780521587433.
- β Her obituary in The Independent
External links
- Hansard 1803β2005: 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 1910β1935 |
Succeeded by Rupert de la Bère |
Political offices | ||
Preceded by Robert Sanders |
Treasurer of the Household 1919β1921 |
Succeeded by George Gibbs |
Preceded by Leo Amery |
Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty 1922β1923 |
Succeeded by Archibald Boyd-Carpenter |
Preceded by Leslie Wilson |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury 1923β1924 |
Succeeded by Ben Spoor |
Preceded by Ben Spoor |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury 1924β1929 |
Succeeded by Tom Kennedy |
Preceded by Sir Austen Chamberlain |
First Lord of the Admiralty 1931β1936 |
Succeeded by Sir Samuel Hoare |
Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
Preceded by New Creation |
Viscount Monsell 1935β1969 |
Succeeded by (Henry Bolton) Graham Eyres-Monsell |