Hugh Molson, Baron Molson

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Richard Nugent
Member of Parliament
for High Peak
In office
7 October 1939 – 31 January 1961
Preceded bySir Alfred Law
Succeeded byDavid Walder
Member of Parliament
for Doncaster
In office
27 October 1931 – 14 November 1935
Preceded byWilfred Paling
Succeeded byAlfred Short
Personal details
Born
Arthur Hugh Elsdale Molson

(1903-06-29)29 June 1903
Chelmsford, Essex, England
Died13 October 1991(1991-10-13) (aged 88)
Westminster, London, England
Political partyConservative
Spouse
Nancy Astington
​
​
(m. 1949; died 1991)​
Parent
  • John Elsdale Molson (father)
Alma materNew College, Oxford

Arthur Hugh Elsdale Molson, Baron Molson,

PC (29 June 1903 – 13 October 1991) was a British Conservative politician and member of the Molson family of Montreal
.

Life and career

Born in

John Elsdale Molson, Member of Parliament for Gainsborough from 1918 to 1923, and Mary Leeson. He was educated at the Royal Naval College, Osborne, and Dartmouth, at Lancing, and at New College, Oxford
.

At Lancing, Molson was a contemporary and close friend of Evelyn Waugh, and known as "Luncher". To the young Waugh, he represented a figure of louche daring, as evidenced by many suggestive but mostly inexplicit references in his published letters and diaries. They were less close from Oxford onwards.

Molson was President of the

barrister-at-law at the Inner Temple
in 1931.

He was commissioned on 4 March 1939[2] and served with the 36th (Middlesex) Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery from 1939 to 1941. He was Staff Captain with the 11th Anti-Aircraft Division from 1941 to 1942.

Molson was the unsuccessful

Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation from November 1953 to January 1957, and as Minister of Works from 1957 until October 1959. He was a Member of the Monckton Commission on Rhodesia and Nyasaland in 1960, and Chairman of the Commission of Privy Counsellors on the dispute between Buganda and Bunyoro
in 1962.

In 1949, Molson married Nancy Astington, daughter of W.H. Astington of Bramhall, Cheshire.

Life Peer on 21 February 1961 as Baron Molson, of High Peak in the County of Derby.[4]

In later life, Molson was Chairman (1968–71) and President (1971–80) of the

Council for the Protection of Rural England. He died at Westminster
in 1991, aged 88.

Notable quotations

Arms

Coat of arms of Hugh Molson, Baron Molson
Crest
A crescent Argent between two wings the dexter Gules the sinister Azure each charged with a maple leaf Or.
Escutcheon
Per pale Azure and Gules three crescents Argent on a chief Ermine a lion passant guardant Or between two roses of the third barbed and seeded Proper.
Supporters
On either side a golden retriever dog Proper gorged with a collar indented throughout Or and Gules lined Sable.
Motto
Industria Et Spe (By Industry And Hope)[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ Oxford University Calendar. University of Oxford. 1928. p. 223.
  2. ^ "No. 34610". The London Gazette. 24 March 1939. p. 7.
  3. ^ Who's Who, 1965, London : A. & C Black, 1965, p. 2140.
  4. ^ "No. 42285". The London Gazette. 21 February 1961. p. 1359.
  5. ^ "Review: Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson". the Guardian. 23 May 2008. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
  6. ^ Debrett's Peerage. 1973.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Doncaster
1931–1935 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Alfred Joseph Law
 Member of Parliament for High Peak
1939–1961 		Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport
1953–1957 		Succeeded by
Richard Nugent
Preceded by
Patrick George Thomas Buchan-Hepburn
 Minister of Works
1957–1959 		Succeeded by
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