Hugh Molson, Baron Molson

Arthur Hugh Elsdale Molson, Baron Molson, of High Peak in the County of Derbyshire PC ( born June 29, 1903 in Chelmsford, Essex, † 13 October 1991 in Westminster, London ) was a British politician of the Conservative Party, with interruptions of 25 years was a member of the House of Commons and in 1961 as a Life peer because of the Life peerages Act 1958 a member of the House of Lords was and 1957-1959 Minister of works (Minister of Works ) was.

Life

Lawyer

Molson was a descendant of the 1782 by Lincolnshire emigrated to Montreal family of John Molson, Founder of Molson family brewery. He was the son of Major John Elsdale Molson, who as an MP in the House of Commons constituency Gainsborough represented 1918-1923, and first visited the Old Royal Naval College at Osbourne House and then the Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, before a studies at New College, University of Oxford completed.

Molson, who was president of the Oxford Union in 1925, worked after graduation 1926-1929 as Political Secretary of the United Chambers of Commerce of India. After his return, he ran unsuccessfully for the Tories in the general election on 30 May 1929 at the constituency for Aberdare elected to the House of Commons.

Lower house deputy

Shortly afterwards, however, he was elected in the general election on 27 October 1931 the Conservative Party to the deputies in the lower house and represented in this up to his defeat at the subsequent elections of 14 November 1935 Constituency Doncaster.

After the death of Alfred Law on July 18, 1939 Molson was elected at the resulting need -election in the constituency of High Peak on 7 October 1939 to the MPs in the House of Commons and represented the Conservative Party after five re- elections until his mandate resignation on 31 January. 1961 a further 21 years as a deputy.

During the Second World War Molson his military service, first 1939-1941 in the 36th Searchlight Regiment and then to 1942 as a captain on the staff of a division.

Ministers and the House of Lords member

After the electoral victory of the Tories in the general election on October 25, 1951 Molson was Prime Minister Winston Churchill first to Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Works (Minister of Works ), David Eccles appointed, and held that office until he on November 11, 1953 Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation (Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation ), Alex Lennox- Boyd, was. He continued in this function even under the two successors of Lennox - Boyd, John Boyd - Carpenter and Harold Watkinson, to January 9, in 1957 and 1956 and Privy Councillor.

On January 16, 1957 Molson was finally appointed shortly after the inauguration of Harold Macmillan as the new prime minister of this as the successor of Patrick Buchan - Hepburn himself as Minister of Works and held that post until his replacement by John Hope on October 22, 1959.

After retiring from the House of Commons he was a Letters Patent raised as a life peer with the title Baron Molson, of High Peak in the County of Derbyshire in the peerage of 21 February 1961, was thus until his death in the House of Lords as Member of. Later he was involved from 1968 to 1971 as chairman and then 1971-1980 as President of the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England ( Campaign to Protect Rural England).

Baron Molson was at the time of his death 55 years Member of the British Parliament.