Oswald Partington, 2nd Baron Doverdale (4 May 1872 – 23 March 1935) was a

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politician in the

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Career

The second but oldest surviving son of mill-owner Edward Partington (who became the 1st Baron Doverdale), Oswald Partington was born in Bury. Educated at

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, he held a commission in the 4th (

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) Battalion of the

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. He was a justice of the peace for the counties of

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and

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, and a Deputy Lieutenant of the latter county. Partington entered the family business which involved the production and processing of wood pulp for the manufacture of paper. He became a member of the firm of Olive and Partington, with paper mills in

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, Derbyshire and a director of the Kellner-Partington Paper Pulp Company. He was elected at the 1900 general election as Member of Parliament for High Peak constituency in

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, and held the seat through two further elections before his defeat at the

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. In March 1913 he was appointed an

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as a member of the Liberal-backed Progressive Party. He remained a member of the council until 1920. He returned to the

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in 1915 at an uncontested by-election for the Shipley constituency in the

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. The vacancy occurred during the

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, when the sitting MP,

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, died. Under an agreement between the parties vacant seats were to be uncontested for the duration of the conflict, with only a candidate of the party holding the seat being nominated. Partington stood down at the next general election in 1918. He succeeded his father in the peerage upon his death in 1925. He died at his London home, Bolney House in

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in 1935 aged 62. He was buried at

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near

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, close to his country home of Westwood Park.

Family

Partington was twice married. His first wedding took place at

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on 6 August 1902, when he wed Honourable Clara Isabel Murray (1880–1945), daughter of

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. The couple had one son and one daughter but were divorced in 1934. In 1934 he married an American widow, Leslie Tailer née Cornell, daughter of George B Cornell, of

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. Children: * Edward Alexander Partington (1904–1949), who succeeded as Baron Doverdale *Honourable Aline Emily Partington (b. 1907), married 1936 Sir Kenneth Weir Hogg, 6th Baronet

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Partington, Oswald 1872 births 1935 deaths Burials in Worcestershire Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for constituencies in Derbyshire UK MPs 1900–1906 UK MPs 1906–1910 UK MPs 1910 UK MPs 1910–1918 Doverdale, 2 People educated at Rossall School Progressive Party (London) politicians Members of London County Council People from Bury, Greater Manchester High Peak, Derbyshire Deputy lieutenants of Worcestershire English justices of the peace British Militia officers Cheshire Regiment officers 19th-century British Army personnel Military personnel from Manchester Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for High Peak