Sir Richard Douglas Denman, 1st Baronet (24 August 1876 – 22 December 1957), was a radical British Liberal Party politician and Labour Party then National Labour MP.

Background

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

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. Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, was his great-grandfather.

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the Postmaster General. Denman was elected to the House of Commons for

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as a Liberal 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 Union of Democratic Control, 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 President of the Board of Education and to

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the

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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 Leeds Central 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,

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into the National Labour party and was re-elected under this label at the 1931 and 1935 General Elections. He served as the Second Church Estates Commissioner between 1931 and 1943. He retired ahead of the 1945 General Election.Gildart et al. p. 56 In 1945, Denman was created a Baronet, of Staffield in the County of

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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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