Sir Joseph Nall, 1st Baronet, DSO DL (24 August 1887 – 2 May 1958) was a British Conservative politician and industrialist. He was the son of Joseph Nall of Worsley, Lancashire. In 1904 he joined the family firm of Joseph Nall and Company, carriers and railway cartage agents. In 1906 he joined the

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, a unit of the Volunteer Force. He continued his connection with the successors to the Volunteers, the Territorial Force, serving in Egypt,

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and France in First World War. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1918.''Obituary: Sir Joseph Nall'', The Times, 5 May 1958 At the general election of 1918 he was elected as Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for the Hulme constituency of Manchester. He became the parliamentary private secretary to the Home Secretary, W C Bridgeman, and was knighted in 1924 as part of

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's resignation honours. He lost his parliamentary seat to the Labour Party at the 1929 election, but regained it two years later at the 1931 poll. In May 1935, Nall and four other Conservative MPs asked that the

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whip be withdrawn from them in protest against proposals to introduce Home Rule to India. In February 1935 Nall became one of the first people to predict that

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would become Prime Minister (even though at the time Churchill was in the political wilderness). Nall observed that ‘If there were a big political crisis … Churchill by virtue of his brains and personality would take the foremost place, and would in that event be accepted by the Tory Party.’ Also in 1935 Nall became chairman of Joseph Nall and Company, and he subsequently held a number of directorships in companies in Northern England. He remained MP for Hulme until the next election in 1945, which was delayed by the Second World War. Nall retired from parliament at this point. He was the last chairman of the Lancashire Electric Light and Power Company until its

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in 1947. The family firm was also taken over by the state in the following year, when it passed to the British Transport Commission. Nall continued to be the member of a number of other company boards including Lancashire United Transport and Wilson and Walker Breweries. In 1954 Sir Joseph Nall was created a baronet "of Hoveringham Hall in the County of Nottingham". He died on 2 May 1958, aged 70, and his funeral took place five days latter at

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, Nottinghamshire.''Funeral: Colonel Sir Joseph Hall'', The Times, 8 May 1958, p.12

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nall, Joseph 1887 births 1958 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1918–1922 UK MPs 1922–1923 UK MPs 1923–1924 UK MPs 1924–1929 UK MPs 1931–1935 UK MPs 1935–1945 British Army personnel of World War I Royal Artillery officers Companions of the Distinguished Service Order Deputy Lieutenants of Lancashire Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Knights Bachelor