Edward Mauger Iliffe, 1st Baron Iliffe, (17 May 1877 – 25 July 1960) was a British newspaper magnate, public servant and

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Biography

Iliffe was the son of William Isaac Iliffe (1843–1917), a printer and Justice of the Peace, of Allesley near

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. His father, associated with Henry Sturmey, founded early publications on the motor industry and cycling. His father also founded the '' Coventry Evening Telegraph'', which Edward began working on at age 17. After his father died in 1917, he and his brother expanded the business and Edward ultimately became president and the principal proprietor of the '' Birmingham Post'' and the ''

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'' and owner of the ''Coventry Evening Telegraph'' and the '' Cambridge Daily News''. Iliffe was also Chairman of Iliffe & Sons, a Director of London Insurance and a Member of Lloyd's as well as Deputy Chairman of Allied Newspapers Ltd. He was also part owner of ''

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'' together with Lord Camrose and Lord Kemsley (a partnership dissolved in 1937).

Member of Parliament

He sat as a

Member of Parliament for Tamworth from 1923 to 1929, but resigned to give his seat to Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, who had been unseated in the election.

Public service and honours

During the

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, Iliffe was Controller of the Machine Tool Department at the

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. For this service he was appointed a Commander of the

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in the 1918 Birthday Honours. Iliffe was knighted in 1922. On 22 June 1933 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Iliffe, of

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in the County of

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, where he lived at Yattendon Court. He worked with the Association of the British Chambers of Commerce for many years and was the president of the association in 1932. During the Second World War, he served as chairman of the Duke of Gloucester's Red Cross and St John Appeal and helped raise more than £50 million, for which he was promoted to Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in 1946. Iliffe also served as president of the Trustees of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre,

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, from 1933 to 1958, and president of the International Lawn Tennis Club of Great Britain from 1945 to 1959. In 1946 he served as Master of the

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.https://www.clockmakers.org/the-company/history Worshipful Company of Clockmakers history page; link at bottom to PDF list of past masters In 1937, Iliffe donated Allesley Hall and the surrounding acreage to the Coventry City Council.

Personal life

Iliffe married Charlotte Gilding, daughter of Henry Gilding, in 1902, and they had a son and a daughter. He died in July 1960 in London, aged 83, and was succeeded in the barony by his son, Langton.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Iliffe, Edward Iliffe, 1st Baron 1877 births 1960 deaths Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom 20th-century British newspaper publishers (people)

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Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire People from Yattendon Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1923–1924 UK MPs 1924–1929 UK MPs who were granted peerages Barons created by George V Masters of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers