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Willoughby Hyett Dickinson, 1st Baron Dickinson,
KBE,
PC (9 April 1859 – 31 May 1943), was a British
Liberal Party
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politician. He was Member of Parliament for
St. Pancras North from 1906 to 1918. He was an influential proponent of establishing a League of Nations after WWI.
Background
Dickinson was the son of
Sebastian Stewart Dickinson,
Member of Parliament
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for
Stroud
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. He was educated at
Eton College
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and
Trinity College, Cambridge
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. He married Elizabeth, daughter of General
Sir Richard John Meade, in 1891. They had three children, one of whom was
Frances Joan Dickinson, Baroness Northchurch. On 18 January 1930 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Dickinson, of
Painswick
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in the
County of Gloucester
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. Lord Dickinson died in May 1943, aged 84, and was succeeded in the barony by his grandson
Richard
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, his only son the Hon. Richard Sebastian Willoughby Dickinson having predeceased him. Willoughby Dickinson's sister, Frances May, an anaesthetist, was the first wife of surgeon Sir
James Berry.
Political career
He served as vice-chairman of the recently formed
London County Council
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from 1892 to 1896 and then its chairman from March 1900 to March 1901. From 1896 until 1918, he was chair of the London Liberal Federation.
He was an assiduous supporter of
women's suffrage
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, promoting a number of measures in Parliament to get the vote for women. Dickinson was made a
Privy Counsellor
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in 1914. He did not stand for parliament again. He was later secretary-general of the
World Alliance for International Friendship
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, and from 1931 chairman of its International Council.
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Nobel Peace Prize speech 1930
by Nathan Söderblom
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. In 1930, he joined the
Labour Party, but the following year he was part of the
National Labour Organisation
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split.
Electoral record
Arms
References
* Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990. .
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1859 births
1943 deaths
People educated at Eton College
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