Sir Richard Douglas Denman, 1st Baronet (24 August 1876 – 22 December 1957), was a radical

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politician and Labour Party then National Labour MP.

Background

Denman was the son of Richard Denman, a court clerk and

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, was his great-grandfather.

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the

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. Denman was elected to the

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for

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as a

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in January 1910. In February 1910, when Sydney Buxton was appointed

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he appointed Denman as his Parliamentary Private Secretary. In 1911 he served as Chairmam of London Juvenile Advisory Committee. In 1914 when war broke out he joined the

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, a pressure group of Liberal and Labour politicians who were critical of the Government's war policies. In 1917 he was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Sir Herbert Fisher the

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and to

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the President of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries in the Coalition government of

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. He held Carlisle until he stood down in

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. He stood unsuccessfully in Newcastle upon Tyne West in

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, and was defeated again when he stood in

at the 1923 general election.

Labour party

He joined the Labour Party in 1924 and was elected under that label for

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at the 1929 General Election.

National Labour party

In October 1931 when the Labour party split over support for a National Government, he followed Labour Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald into the National Labour party and was re-elected under this label at the 1931 and 1935 General Elections. He served as the

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between 1931 and 1943. He retired ahead of the 1945 General Election.Gildart et al. p. 56 In 1945, Denman was created a

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, of Staffield in the County of Cumberland.

Family

Denman married first

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, in 1904; they had separated by 1909. After an annulment, he married May Spencer in 1914, and had a family. He died in December 1957, aged 81, and was succeeded by his son

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, who in 1971 also succeeded his cousin as fifth Baron Denman.

References

Sources

*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, * *

External links

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