Willoughby Dickinson, 1st Baron Dickinson

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Sir Willoughby Dickinson

Willoughby Hyett Dickinson, 1st Baron Dickinson, KBE, PC (9 April 1859 – 31 May 1943), was a British Liberal Party politician. He was Member of Parliament for St. Pancras North from 1906 to 1918. He was an influential proponent of establishing a League of Nations after the First World War.^[1]

Background

Dickinson was the son of Sebastian Stewart Dickinson, Member of Parliament for Stroud. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge.^[2] He married Elizabeth, daughter of General Sir Richard John Meade,^[3] in 1891. They had three children, one of whom was Frances Joan Dickinson, Baroness Northchurch. On 18 January 1930 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Dickinson, of Painswick in the County of Gloucester.^[4] Lord Dickinson died in May 1943, aged 84, and was succeeded in the barony by his grandson Richard, his only son the Hon. Richard Sebastian Willoughby Dickinson having predeceased him. Willoughby Dickinson's sister, Frances May, an anaesthetist, was the first wife of surgeon Sir James Berry.^[5]

Political career

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Dickinson in 1906

He served as vice-chairman of the recently formed London County Council from 1892 to 1896 and then its chairman from March 1900 to March 1901.^[6] From 1896 until 1918, he was chair of the London Liberal Federation.^[7] He was an assiduous supporter of women's suffrage, promoting a number of measures in Parliament to get the vote for women.^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11] Dickinson was made a Privy Counsellor in 1914. He did not stand for parliament again.^[12] He was later secretary-general of the World Alliance for International Friendship, and from 1931 chairman of its International Council.^[13] In 1930, he joined the Labour Party, but the following year he was part of the National Labour Organisation split.^[7]

Electoral record

General election 1900: St Pancras North
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	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Edward Robert Pacy Moon	3,056	56.6	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Willoughby Dickinson	2,345	43.4	Script error: No such module "String".
Majority			711	13.2	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout			5,401	71.2	Script error: No such module "String".
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General election 1906: St Pancras North
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	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Willoughby Dickinson	4,094	60.8	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Edward Robert Pacy Moon	2,643	39.2	Script error: No such module "String".
Majority			1,451	21.6	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout			6,737	84.0	Script error: No such module "String".
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General election January 1910 St Pancras North
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	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Willoughby Dickinson	4,970	58.0	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	H A Pakenham	3,603	42.0	Script error: No such module "String".
Majority			1,367	16.0	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout			8,573	85.9	Script error: No such module "String".
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General election December 1910 St Pancras North
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	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Willoughby Dickinson	4,407	57.7	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Arthur Moon	3,230	42.3	Script error: No such module "String".
Majority			1,177	15.4	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout			7,637	76.5	Script error: No such module "String".
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General election 1918: St Pancras North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Willoughby Dickinson	5,596	32.0	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	John Gilbert Dale	4,651	26.6	Script error: No such module "String".
Majority			1,664	9.4	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout			33,747	51.9	Script error: No such module "String".
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General election 1922: St Pancras North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	John William Lorden	9,156	37.7	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	John Gilbert Dale	8,165	33.6	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Willoughby Dickinson	6,979	28.7	Script error: No such module "String".
Majority			991	4.1	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout				66.0	Script error: No such module "String".
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Arms

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References

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↑ from March 1907 to the Representation of the People Bill of 1913. During World War I the Speakers Conference on electoral reform included two influential Liberal suffragists, Sir John Simon and W. H. Dickinson, who helped ensure that it recommended granting the vote to women.[1]
↑ Summary of 1912 Conciliation Bill debate; Dickinson quoted as, I regard this question of the women's franchise as part of the movement of civilisation.
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1973, FWS Craig
↑ Mentioned in Nobel Peace Prize speech 1930, by Nathan Söderblom.

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