Percy Holden Illingworth (19 March 1869 – 3 January 1915) was a British

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politician. He served as

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under

H. H. Asquith Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, (12 September 1852 – 15 February 1928), generally known as H. H. Asquith, was a British statesman and Liberal Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom f ...

between 1912 and 1915.

Background and education

Illingworth was the third and youngest son of Henry Illingworth, of Bradford, a member of an old

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family, and his wife Mary, daughter of Sir Isaac Holden, 1st Baronet.

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, was his elder brother.thepeerage.com Rt. Hon. Sir Percy Holden Illingworth
/ref> He was educated at

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, where he played rugby for the university, winning two sporting 'Blues' in

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es of 1889 and 1890. He was called to the Bar,

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, in 1894. He later served in the

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Political career

In 1906 Illingworth was returned to Parliament for Shipley, and served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Chief Secretary for Ireland ( James Bryce and

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respectively) from 1906 to 1910. From February 1910 to April 1912, he was a Junior

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under

. In 1912 Asquith appointed him

, a post he held until his sudden death in early 1915. He had been nominated to the Privy Council but died before he could be sworn in.

Family

Illingworth married Mary Mackenzie Coats (b. 1883), daughter of George Coats, of Staneley,

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, on 16 January 1907, at Paisley. They had three sons. He died suddenly in January 1915 of typhoid fever.Jesus College Cambridge Society Annual Report 1915, page 18

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