(Arthur) Hugh (Elsdale) Molson, Baron Molson PC (29 June 1903 - 13 October 1991) was a British Conservative politician. Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council is a body of advisors to the British Sovereign. Events 512 - A Solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland. Year 1903 ( MCMIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar or a Common year starting Events 54 - Nero ascends to the Roman throne 409 - Vandals and Alans crossed the Pyrenees Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is a Political party in the United Kingdom.
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. A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a Parliament. Gainsborough is a County constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Osborne House is a former royal residence in East Cowes, Isle of Wight, England. Britannia Royal Naval College (BRNC is the initial officer training establishment of the Royal Navy, located on a hill overlooking Dartmouth, Devon Lancing College is a co-educational English Independent school, founded in 1848 by Rev New College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. He was President of the Oxford Union in 1925. Status and membership The Oxford Union is an Unincorporated association, holding its property in trust in favour of its objectives and members and governed He became a Barrister-at-Law at the Inner Temple in 1931. A barrister is a Lawyer found in many Common law Jurisdictions that employ a split profession (as opposed to a Fused profession) in relation The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple is one of the four Inns of Court around the Royal Courts of Justice in London which may call members to 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. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including
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. The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Aberdare was a constituency in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Doncaster was a Parliamentary constituency covering the town of Doncaster in England. High Peak is a County constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. 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. Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport was a junior position at the British Ministry of Transport. The First Commissioner of Works and Public Buildings was a Position within the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 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. Buganda is the kingdom of the Baganda people the largest of the traditional kingdoms in present-day Uganda. Bunyoro is a region of Uganda, and from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century one of the most powerful kingdoms of East Africa.
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. Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council is a body of advisors to the British Sovereign. In the United Kingdom, life peers are created members of the Peerage whose titles may not be inherited (those whose titles are inheritable are known as Hereditary
In later life he was Chairman (1968-71) and President (1971-80) of the Council for the Protection of Rural England. The Campaign to Protect Rural England ( CPRE) is a registered charity with over 60000 members and supporters
At Lancing he was a contemporary and close friend of Evelyn Waugh, and known as "Luncher". Arthur Evelyn St John Waugh (ˈiːvlɪn ˈwɔː (28 October 1903 &ndash 10 April 1966 was an English Writer, best known for such darkly humorous and To the young Waugh he represented a figure of louche daring, as evidenced by many suggestive but mostly inexplicit references in his published Letters and Diaries. They were less close from Oxford onwards.
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| 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 |
| Preceded by Patrick George Thomas Buchan-Hepburn |
Minister of Works 1957–1959 |
Succeeded by John Hope, 1st Baron Glendevon |
| Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||