John George Dodson, 1st Baron Monk Bretton

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Victoria
Prime MinisterWilliam Ewart Gladstone
Preceded byThe Earl of Kimberley
Succeeded byGeorge Trevelyan
Personal details
Born(1825-10-18)18 October 1825
Died25 May 1897(1897-05-25) (aged 71)
NationalityBritish
Political partyLiberal
Liberal Unionist
SpouseFlorence Campion
Alma materChrist Church, Oxford

John George Dodson, 1st Baron Monk Bretton,

Liberal politician. He was Chairman of Ways and Means (Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons) between 1865 and 1872 and later held office under William Ewart Gladstone as Financial Secretary to the Treasury, President of the Local Government Board and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. In 1884 he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Monk Bretton
.

Background and education

Dodson was the only son of

called to the Bar, Lincoln's Inn, in 1853. His exact contemporaries at Eton included William George Mount and the Earl of Kimberley
.

Political career

Dodson unsuccessfully contested

Privy Council in 1872.[1]

In 1873 he was appointed

Chester, and served as Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee
from 1874 to 1876.

In 1880 he was again elected for

administration. According to the rules at the time, he was then forced to contest his constituency again. Dodson was duly elected, but shortly after the original election was declared void on petition. This caused him to seek re-election for another constituency. In July he was returned for Scarborough
, a seat he would hold until 1884.

Dodson remained President of the Local Government Board until 1882, and then served as

Home Rule
.

He was also active in local politics, and served as the first Chairman of the East Sussex County Council from 1889 to 1892. He was a long serving director and trustee of the Rock Life Assurance Company and a director of Brill's Brighton Baths Company. He was a member of the university, Reform, and Brooks's Clubs. Late in life he became concerned about the fate of the African elephant, whose salvation he mooted, in letters to The Times, could come through domestication.

Family

Lord Monk Bretton married Caroline-Florence, second daughter of William John Campion of

John William Dodson
.

John George Dodson, detail of the lithographic reproduction, after James Tissot, published in Vanity Fair, 16 December 1871.
  • J. G. Dodson, MP, in the Illustrated London News, 1865.
    J. G. Dodson, MP, in the Illustrated London News, 1865.
  • Lithographic reproduction, after James Tissot, published in Vanity Fair, 16 December 1871.
    Lithographic reproduction, after James Tissot, published in Vanity Fair, 16 December 1871.
  • Lithographic reproduction, after Leslie Ward, published in Vanity Fair, 25 January 1894.
    Lithographic reproduction, after Leslie Ward, published in Vanity Fair, 25 January 1894.
  • Lord Monk Bretton, by Topham's son (Frank William Warwick Topham), as seen in the Royal Academy, 1897.
    Lord Monk Bretton, by Topham's son (Frank William Warwick Topham), as seen in the Royal Academy, 1897.
  • Lord Monk Bretton as described by Debrett's Peerage, London, 1888.
    Lord Monk Bretton as described by Debrett's Peerage, London, 1888.

References

  1. ^ "No. 23857". The London Gazette. 14 May 1872. p. 2279.
  2. ^ "No. 25411". The London Gazette. 4 November 1884. p. 4753.
  • Dod's
    Parliamentary Companion    , Whittaker & Co., 1878.
  • Thomas Skinner, The Directory of Directors for 1897, London, 1897. (& for 1880).
  • Edward Walford, Old and new London, chapter 28, Mayfair, 1878.

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Viscount Pevensey
 Member of Parliament for
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