Major The Right Honourable
The Lord Ilford
QC MC TD
Member of Parliament for Ilford North
In office
23 February 1950 – 1954
Preceded byMabel Ridealgh
Succeeded byThomas Iremonger
Member of Parliament for Ilford
In office
29 June 1937 – 5 July 1945
Preceded byGeorge Hamilton
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
Personal details
Born
Geoffrey Clegg Hutchinson

(1893-08-14)14 August 1893
Prestwich, Bury, Lancashire
Died21 August 1974(1974-08-21) (aged 81)
Cannes, France
NationalityBritish
Political partyConservative
Spouse
Janet Bidlake
​
(m. 1919)​
Alma materCheltenham College
Clare College, Cambridge

Geoffrey Clegg Hutchinson, Baron Ilford QC, MC, TD (14 October 1893 – 21 August 1974)[1] was a British soldier, a barrister and Conservative Party politician.

Background and military career

Born in Prestwich, he was the youngest son of the cotton manufacturer Henry Omerod Hutchinson and his wife Elizabeth Clegg.[2] He was educated at Cheltenham College and went then to Clare College, Cambridge, graduating with a Master of Arts in 1919.[3] In 1920 Hutchinson was called to the bar by the Inner Temple and went to the Northern Circuit.[4] He was nominated a Queen's Counsel in 1939 and was selected a bencher in 1946.[4]

With the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, Hutchinson joined the Lancashire Fusiliers.[4] He was attached to the British Expeditionary Force until the end of the war and during this time was wounded.[4] In 1916 he was decorated with the Military Cross[4] and in 1933 obtained a captaincy.[5] He was promoted to major in 1937[6] and was awarded the Territorial Decoration in the next year.[4]

After the begin of the Second World War he was reactivated in 1940 and sent with the then Expeditionary Force to the Franco-Belgian border.[4] Hutchinson was allocated to the War Office in the following year, where he served as deputy assistant to the Military Secretary.[4] He retired in 1945 having reached the age limit[7] and was appointed honorary colonel of the 5th battalion of his former regiment in 1948.[8]

Political career

In 1931 Hutchinson joined Hampstead Borough Council, on which he sat for six years.[9] Subsequently, he served as president of the Non-County Boroughs Association until 1944 and chaired then the finance committee of the London County Council until 1949.[10] Hutchinson continued to represent Hampstead in the County Council until 1952.[9] He was chosen vice-president of the Association of Municipal Corporations in 1944.[9]

After unsuccessfully running for Gower in 1935, Hutchinson entered the House of Commons in 1937, retaining Ilford for the Conservatives at a by-election.[1][3] He represented that constituency until it was abolished in 1945,[3] That year he ran for the new seat of Ilford North and lost, but won it in 1950 and 1951.[1] In Parliament, Hutchinson became a member of the Select Committee on National Expenditure in 1942 and of the Speaker's Committee in 1944.[4] He sat in the Joint Committee on Consolidation, &c., Bills in 1951 and again two years later.[4]

Hutchinson was almoner and governor of Christ's Hospital.[11] In 1947 he became director of the Colne Valley Water and three years later was president of the British Waterworks Association.[4] He worked in the same function for the Water Companies Association from 1951 and chaired the East Surrey Water Company from the subsequent year.[4] He resigned from Parliament in 1954, when he became chairman of the National Assistance Board, a position he held until 1964.[4][12] He received a knighthood in 1952[13] and he became a life peer with the title Baron Ilford, of Bury, in the County Palatine of Lancaster on 14 May 1962.[14]

Family

Hutchinson married Janet Bidlake, youngest daughter of Henry Frederick Keep in 1919.[2] He died in Cannes in France in 1974.[1]

Arms

Coat of arms of Geoffrey Hutchinson, Baron Ilford
Crest
A Saracen's head couped at the shoulders Proper wreathed about the temples Argent and Azure charged on the breast with a cross patée Sable between a branch of laurel on the dexter and a branch of oak fructed on the sinister also Proper.
Escutcheon
Quarterly Azure and Gules a lion rampant Erminois within four cross crosslets fitchy Argent and four bezants alternately in orle.
Supporters
Dexter a pegasus, sinister a lion, Proper each gorged with an ancient crown Or.
Motto
Perseverando (By Persevering)[15]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Stenton and Lees (1981), p. 183
  2. 1 2 Fox-Davies (1929), p. 1013
  3. 1 2 3 Dod (1966), p. 144
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Who's Who (1963), p. 1552
  5. ↑ "No. 33925". The London Gazette. 28 March 1933. p. 2118.
  6. ↑ "No. 34368". The London Gazette. 5 February 1937. p. 793.
  7. ↑ "No. 37364". The London Gazette (Supplement). 23 November 1945. p. 5746.
  8. ↑ "No. 38353". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 July 1948. p. 4071.
  9. 1 2 3 Young (1975), p. 19
  10. ↑ Young (1975), p. 18
  11. ↑ Who's Who (1963), p. 1551
  12. ↑ Ilford, Baron. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U155979.
  13. ↑ "No. 39480". The London Gazette. 29 February 1952. p. 1192.
  14. ↑ "No. 42675". The London Gazette. 15 May 1962. p. 3943.
  15. ↑ Debrett's Peerage. 1973.

References

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