Herbert Nield
Sir Herbert Nield
DL (20 October 1862 – 11 October 1932)[1] was a barrister and Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom
.
Biography
Born in Saddleworth, Yorkshire, Nield was admitted a solicitor in 1885, called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1895 and 'took silk' as a King's Counsel in 1913.[2]
In 1895 he was elected to Middlesex County Council as a representative of Tottenham. In 1906 he was created a county alderman and remained a member of the council until his death.[2]
Nield was elected as
House of Commons at the 1931 general election.[3]
Appointed a
Privy Councillor in 1924.[3] He was a member of the London Survey Committee, a voluntary organisation publishing architectural surveys of the capital.[6]
Nield was twice married. In 1890 he married Mary Catherine Baker of
First Battle of the Somme.[8] His second wife was Mabel Owen, second daughter of Sir Francis Cory-Wright, 1st Baronet, with whom he had a second son.[2]
He died on the 11th October 1932 and his body was interred in the Cory-Wright Mausoleum on the western side of Highgate Cemetery.
References
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "E" (part 1)
- ^ a b c d "Death of Sir Herbert Nield". West Middlesex Gazette. 15 October 1932. p. 15.
- ^ ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- ^ "No. 28593". The London Gazette. 26 March 1912. p. 2215.
- ^ "New Year Honours. The Official Lists., New Peers And Baronets., Long Roll Of Soldiers. (transcription)". The Times. No. 41675. London. 1 January 1918. p. 8; col B. Retrieved 24 December 2008.
- ^ "Members of the Survey Committee Pages 4-7 Survey of London Monograph 12". British History Online. Guild & School of Handicraft, London, 1926. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
- ^ THE LONDON GAZETTE, 2 APRIL, 1918.
- ^ "Nield, Wilfred Herbert Everard". Winchester College at War. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
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