Alfred Emmott, 1st Baron Emmott

The Right Honourable
The Lord Emmott
GCMG GBE PC
The Right Honourable The Lord Emmott GCMG GBE PC
	"The Deputy Speaker" as depicted in Vanity Fair, 19 October 1910
Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons; Chairman of Ways and Means
	In office; 1906–1911
Monarchs	Edward VII ; George V
Preceded by	Sir John Grant Lawson, 1st Baronet
Succeeded by	John Henry Whitley
Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies
	In office; 23 October 1911 – 6 August 1914
Monarch	George V
Prime Minister	H. H. Asquith
Preceded by	The Lord Lucas of Crudwell
Succeeded by	The Lord Islington
First Commissioner of Works
	In office; 6 August 1914 – 25 May 1915
Monarch	George V
Prime Minister	H. H. Asquith
Preceded by	The Earl Beauchamp
Succeeded by	Lewis Vernon Harcourt
Personal details
Born	8 May 1858
Died	13 December 1926 (aged 68); London
Party	Liberal
Spouse	Mary Lees
Education	University of London

Alfred Emmott, 1st Baron Emmott (8 May 1858 – 13 December 1926) was a British businessman and Liberal Party politician.

Background and education

The eldest surviving son of Thomas Emmott, of Brookfield, Oldham,^[1] he was educated at a Friends' School in Kendal, Westmorland and at Grove House School in Tottenham before studying for a BA at the University of London. Afterwards, he became a partner in Emmott and Walshall, cotton spinners, of Oldham.^[2]^[3]

Political career

In 1881, Emmott was elected as a Liberal to Oldham Municipal Borough Council,^[3] where he would serve as a councillor for twelve years. He was the mayor of the town between 1891 and 1892.^[1]^[2] In a by-election in 1899, he was elected Liberal Member of Parliament for Oldham, a seat he held until 1911. It was a two-member seat, and Winston Churchill, who started his political career there, was the other member from 1900 to 1906.^[4]

Emmott served as Chairman of Ways and Means (Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons) from 1906 to 1911 and was sworn of the Privy Council in 1908. In October 1911, he was appointed Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies by H. H. Asquith^[1] and the following month he was raised to the peerage as Baron Emmott, of Oldham in the County Palatine of Lancaster.^[5] He remained at the Colonial Office until 1914 and was then a member of Asquith's cabinet as First Commissioner of Works between 1914 and 1915.^[1]

Emmott was also Director of the War Trade Department between 1915 and 1919, chaired the Royal Commission on Decimal Coinage between 1918 and 1920 and was President of the Royal Statistical Society between 1922 and 1924.^[3] He was a churchman, but his education at the Friends' School and his ancestry led him to sympathize with nonconformists.^{[citation needed]} He was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) in 1914^[6] and a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in 1917.^[7]

In his approach to politics, Emmott was a strong supporter of the government's social reforms.^[8] This was arguably reflected in 1910 when Emmott, in response to Conservative critics who attacked the Liberals as "socialistic", retorted that "so far as we have gone in the direction of Socialism, so-called, whether it be in regard to free and compulsory education, whether it be in regard to old age pensions, or in respect of any other reform, we have not diminished, but rather added to the liberty of the individual."^[9]

Family

Lord Emmott married Mary Gertrude, a daughter of J. W. Lees, in 1887.^[10] Lady Emmott was educated at Queen's College, London and was a member of many philanthropic and civic associations, serving at one point as President of the National Council of Women of Great Britain.^[11] Lady and Lord Emmott had two daughters, Mary Gwendolen (later known as Mrs Home Peel), born in 1888 and Dorothy (later known as Mrs Christopher Barlow), born in 1890.^[10] Through their elder daughter, Lord Emmett is grandfather to the historian and author Joan Simon.^[1]

In December 1926, aged 67, Lord Emmott died very suddenly of angina pectoris at his home in London,^[3]^[12] on a day when he was engaged to speak at a Liberal Party rally.^{[citation needed]} The barony became extinct on his death, as he had no son.^[10]

Arms

Coat of arms of Alfred Emmott, 1st Baron Emmott
	Crest In front of a demi-bull Sable armed Or semee of annulets and gorged with a collar gemel Argant and holding between the legs a plate three escallops reversed Or. Escutcheon Per pale Azure and Sable on a fess Argent cotised Or between three plates each charged with a bull’s head cabossed of the first as many annulets of the second. Supporters On either side a bull reguardant Argent semee of roses and collared Gules Motto Tiens La Vraie (Hold To The Truth)^[13]

Parliament of the United Kingdom

Preceded by

Robert Ascroft
James Francis Oswald

Member of Parliament for Oldham
1899–1911
With: Walter Runciman 1899–1900
Winston Churchill 1900–1906
John Albert Bright 1906–1910
William Barton 1910–1911

Succeeded by

Edmund Bartley-Denniss
William Barton

Preceded by

Sir John Lawson, Bt

Chairman of Ways and Means
1906–1911

Succeeded by

John Henry Whitley

Political offices

Preceded by

The Lord Lucas of Crudwell

Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies
1911–1914

Succeeded by

The Lord Islington

Preceded by

The Earl Beauchamp

First Commissioner of Works
1914–1915

Succeeded by

Lewis Harcourt

Peerage of the United Kingdom

New creation

Baron Emmott
1911–1926

Extinct

References

1 2 3 4 5 "Emmott, 1st Baron (U.K.)". Dod's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, etc. of Great Britain and Ireland (83rd ed.). Dod's Peerage. 1923. p. 300.
1 2 "Lord Emmott". The Times. No. 44454. 14 December 1926. p. 19. Full access available to users of The Wikipedia Library.
1 2 3 4 "Emmott, Alfred, Baron Emmott". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33022. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
↑ Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. "England – Provincial Boroughs". British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 165. ISBN 0-900178-27-2. Full access available to users of The Wikipedia Library.
↑ "No. 28547". The London Gazette. 3 November 1911. p. 7952.
↑ "No. 12630". The Edinburgh Gazette. 2 January 1914. p. 8.
↑ "No. 13133". The Edinburgh Gazette. 27 August 1917. p. 1784.
↑ Heath, Alison (6 October 2015). The Life of George Ranken Askwith, 1861–1942. Routledge. ISBN 9781317320043.
↑ Clarke, P. F. (26 March 2007). Lancashire and the New Liberalism. Cambridge University Press. p. 361. ISBN 9780521035576.
1 2 3 Pine, L. G.; Scott, F. S. A., eds. (1956). "Emmott, B.". Burke's Peerage (101st ed.). Burke's Peerage Limited. p. cviii.
↑ Martin, Jane (2014). "Neglected Women Historians: the case of Joan Simon". FORUM. 56 (3): 541–566. doi:10.15730/forum.2014.56.3.541.
↑ "Death Of Lord Emmott". The Times. No. 44454. 14 December 1926. p. 14. Full access available to users of The Wikipedia Library.
↑ Debrett's Peerage. 1921. p. 347.

External links

Hesilrige, Arthur G. M. (1921). Debrett's Peerage and Titles of courtesy. London: Dean & Son. p. 347.
Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Alfred Emmott

[dod-1] 1 2 3 4 5 "Emmott, 1st Baron (U.K.)". Dod's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, etc. of Great Britain and Ireland (83rd ed.). Dod's Peerage. 1923. p. 300.

[times_obituary-2] 1 2 "Lord Emmott". The Times. No. 44454. 14 December 1926. p. 19. Full access available to users of The Wikipedia Library.

[:0-3] 1 2 3 4 "Emmott, Alfred, Baron Emmott". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33022. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)

[craig1885-1918-4] Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. "England – Provincial Boroughs". British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 165. ISBN 0-900178-27-2. Full access available to users of The Wikipedia Library.

[5] "No. 28547". The London Gazette. 3 November 1911. p. 7952.

[6] "No. 12630". The Edinburgh Gazette. 2 January 1914. p. 8.

[7] "No. 13133". The Edinburgh Gazette. 27 August 1917. p. 1784.

[8] Heath, Alison (6 October 2015). The Life of George Ranken Askwith, 1861–1942. Routledge. ISBN 9781317320043.

[9] Clarke, P. F. (26 March 2007). Lancashire and the New Liberalism. Cambridge University Press. p. 361. ISBN 9780521035576.

[burke's-10] 1 2 3 Pine, L. G.; Scott, F. S. A., eds. (1956). "Emmott, B.". Burke's Peerage (101st ed.). Burke's Peerage Limited. p. cviii.

[forum-11] Martin, Jane (2014). "Neglected Women Historians: the case of Joan Simon". FORUM. 56 (3): 541–566. doi:10.15730/forum.2014.56.3.541.

[12] "Death Of Lord Emmott". The Times. No. 44454. 14 December 1926. p. 14. Full access available to users of The Wikipedia Library.

[13] Debrett's Peerage. 1921. p. 347.

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Alfred Emmott, 1st Baron Emmott

Background and education

Political career

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Arms

References

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