Davison Dalziel, 1st Baron Dalziel of Wooler

Davison Alexander Dalziel, 1st Baron Dalziel of Wooler ( born October 17, 1852 † April 18, 1928 ), born as Davison Alexander Dalziel, was a British journalist, politician and entrepreneur.

Life

Dalziel was born the son of Octavian Davison Dalziel and Helen Gaulter, he came from a family from the Scottish Lowlands and Northumberland, whose members were known primarily as engravers and draftsman.

Dalziel was a young man in the early 1870s to Australia. In Sydney he worked as a journalist for the newspaper Sydney echo. There he married in January 1876, his wife Harriet Dunning. Then he went to the USA, where he was also active in the newspaper industry since 1880. In 1890 he returned to England and founded Dalziel 's News Agency, a press agency. On the edge involved in the Panama scandal, the agency had to close again in 1893.

Dalziel acquired in subsequent years shares in the Evening Standard and other newspapers, he also was active in various other sectors of the economy as an investor. From about 1900 Advanced Dalziel its activities on the newspaper business out and turned to the transport sector. As early as 1903 he had become a member of the Board of Directors of Compagnie Internationale des Wagons- Lits ( CIWL ). 1906, according to other sources until 1908, he acquired by the American Pullman Palace Car Company, whose British subsidiary, the Pullman Car Company (PCC ). This included not only the car park and the open contracts with the railway companies, but also the right, with his chariots and trains with the name " Pullman " to refer to and to use the name accordingly in all of Europe. Dalziel expanded quickly, the network of car and train routes in the UK. The few sleepers who had recently still operated the British Pullman society on the lines of the Caledonian Railway in the Northern Highlands, he hired. He focused the business on complete day trains with Pullman cars such as the Brighton Belle between London and Brighton, as well as through cars used in normal express trains Pullman cars. Characteristic of the car was the design as salon similar large space and the at-seat service for which part of the car received kitchens.

1915 Dalziel changed the Pullman Car Company into a joint stock company. From 1919 Dalziel was Chairman of the Board of Directors CIWL. As such, he sat at the CIWL also in mainland Europe, the introduction of Pullman cars and Pullman Express trains such as the Flèche d' Or and the Étoile du Nord by. In 1925, he sold the majority of the British Pullman Car Company in the CIWL - the Pullman Company went with it first partially in the possession of their biggest rivals over the past ten years later acquired the CIWL the remaining shares. This ownership, however, were concealed until the mid- 1970s by the CIWL, officially both companies worked together amicably only. Privately, Dalziel was associated with Georges Nagelmackers, founder of the CIWL, his only daughter Elizabeth married in 1903 Nagelmackers only son René.

In addition to the rail sector Dalziel invested in the taxi industry and the first bus companies. He was Chairman of the General Motor Cab Company, the 1908 United Motor Cab Company took over. Before the First World War, the company operated several thousand taxis and several buses in the London area. Among them were also known as Pullman bus luxury buses.

In the years before the First World War, Dalziel was also active as a politician. In the elections to the House of Commons in January 1910, he won as a member of the Tory seat of the constituency Brixton in the London borough of Lambeth. This he held until the election in December 1923 when the Tories declining as 86 seats. The Labour government under Ramsay MacDonald was able to keep just 10 months, and at the next election in October 1924, the Conservatives won a clear victory. Also Dalziel regained his constituency in Brixton.

On June 9, 1927 Dalziel resigned from the House after he had received the Chiltern Hundreds. He died less than a year later. His grave is located in Highgate Cemetery.

Honors

Dalziel received various honors and awards for his work. On 14 May 1919, he was elevated as 1st Baronet Dalziel baronet. After his retirement from the House of Commons he was on 4 July 1927 as the 1st Baron Dalziel of Wooler to peer and as such member of the House of Lords. Since he left no male descendants, extinguished his title with his death.

In addition, he received further awards:

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