Edward FitzRoy

Captain The Right Honourable Edward FitzRoy DL


Speaker of the House of Commons
In office 20 June 1928 – 3 March 1943
Monarch	George V Edward VIII George VI
Preceded by	John Henry Whitley
Succeeded by	Douglas Clifton Brown
Member of Parliament for Daventry
In office 14 December 1918 – 3 March 1943
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Reginald Manningham-Buller
Personal details
Born	(1869-07-24)24 July 1869
Died	3 March 1943(1943-03-03) (aged 73)
Nationality	British
Political party	Conservative
Spouse(s)	Viscountess Daventry

The Right Honourable Captain Edward Algernon FitzRoy, DL (24 July 1869 – 3 March 1943) was a British Conservative politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1928 until his death.

Early life

As a boy, he served as a Page of Honour to Queen Victoria.

Political career

A member of Northamptonshire County Council from 1896 to 1921, FitzRoy first entered Parliament in 1900 General election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Northamptonshire South.^[1] He was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Northamptonshire in 1901.^[2] He was re-elected during the January 1910 General Election for Northamptonshire South.^[3] He held the seat in the December 1910 General Election.^[4]

During World War I, whilst still an MP, he served in the military as a Captain of the 1st Regiment of Life Guards, was injured at the First Battle of Ypres and commanded the mounted troops of the Guards Division from 1915–16.

In the 1918 General Election, he was elected for the seat of Daventry.^[5] He held the seat in the 1922 General Election,^[6] the 1923 General Election,^[7] the 1924 General Election,^[8] the 1929 General Election,^[9] and the 1935 General Election.^[10]

He served as Deputy Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, briefly during 1923 and from 1924 to 1928. He was made a Privy Councillor in February 1924.^[11] He was elected Speaker of the House of Commons on 20 June 1928.^[12] In 1931, he was awarded a Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Cambridge and an honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree from the University of Oxford in 1934. In 1935, there was considerable controversy when the Labour Party decided to stand a candidate against him in the general election.

Fitzroy died aged 73 in Westminster in 1943.

Personal life

FitzRoy was the second son of the 3rd Baron Southampton. He was a descendant of Charles I.^[13]

Through ancestor Anne Warren, the daughter of Admiral Peter Warren (Royal Navy officer) he is a descendant of the Schuyler family, the Van Cortlandt family, and the Delancey family, all from British North America.^[14]

FitzRoy married Muriel on 19 November 1891. Upon his death she was given a Viscountcy, the customary retirement honour for Speakers, as Viscountess Daventry.

References

↑ The London Gazette: no. 27244. p. 6772. 6 November 1900. Retrieved 2012-05-31.
↑ The London Gazette: no. 27313. p. 3292. 14 May 1901.
↑ The London Gazette: no. 28338. p. 1034. 11 February 1910. Retrieved 2012-05-31.
↑ The London Gazette: no. 28449. p. 9554. 23 December 1910. Retrieved 2012-05-31.
↑ The London Gazette: no. 31147. p. 1361. 28 January 1919. Retrieved 2012-05-31.
↑ The London Gazette: no. 32775. p. 8708. 8 December 1922. Retrieved 2012-05-31.
↑ The London Gazette: no. 32897. p. 364. 11 January 1924. Retrieved 2012-05-31.
↑ The London Gazette: no. 32996. p. 8530. 25 November 1924. Retrieved 2012-05-31.
↑ The London Gazette: no. 33508. p. 4112. 21 June 1929. Retrieved 2012-05-31.
↑ The London Gazette: no. 34223. p. 7502. 26 November 1935. Retrieved 2012-05-31.
↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 32906. p. 1261. 8 February 1924. Retrieved 2012-05-31.
↑ "Election of Speaker". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). House of Commons. 20 June 1928. col. 1719–1728.
↑ Rose, Kenneth (1894). King George V. Alfred A. Knopf. p. 369. ISBN 978-0333372241. ...while standing only a few feet from the place where his own ancestor, Charles I, had been tried for his life and found guilty.
↑ ThePeerage.com page 7165 http://www.thepeerage.com/p7165.htm#i71650 Accessed March 14, 2015.

Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Edward FitzRoy

Court offices
Preceded by George Byng	Page of Honour 1883–1886	Succeeded by Cyril Stopford
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Hon. Edward Douglas-Pennant	Member of Parliament for Northamptonshire South 1900–1906	Succeeded by Archibald Grove
Preceded by Archibald Grove	Member of Parliament for Northamptonshire South 1910–1918	Constituency abolished
New constituency	Member of Parliament for Daventry 1918–1943	Succeeded by Reginald Manningham-Buller
Political offices
Preceded by Cyril Entwistle	Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means 1924–1928	Succeeded by Dennis Herbert
Preceded by John Henry Whitley	Speaker of the House of Commons 1928–1943	Succeeded by Douglas Clifton Brown

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House of Commons
of England

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18th century	Harley Smith

House of Commons
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House of Commons
of the United Kingdom

19th century	Addington Mitford Abbot Manners-Sutton Abercromby Shaw-Lefevre Denison Brand Peel Gully

20th century	Lowther Whitley FitzRoy Brown Morrison Hylton-Foster King Lloyd Thomas Weatherill Boothroyd

21st century	Martin Bercow

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