Walter Rea, 1st Baron Rea

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Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
29 January 1937 – 26 May 1948
Hereditary peerage
Preceded byPeerage created
Succeeded byThe 2nd Lord Rea
Member of Parliament
for Dewsbury
In office
27 October 1931 – 25 October 1935
Preceded byBenjamin Riley
Succeeded byBenjamin Riley
Member of Parliament
for Bradford North
In office
6 December 1923 – 9 October 1924
Preceded byArchibald Boyd-Carpenter
Succeeded byEugene Ramsden
Member of Parliament
for Scarborough
In office
8 February 1906 – 25 November 1918
Preceded byJoseph Compton-Rickett
Succeeded byconstituency abolished
Personal details
Born18 May 1873 (1873-05-18)
Died26 May 1948 (1948-05-27) (aged 75)
Political partyLiberal
Spouse(s)Evelyn
Jemima

Walter Russell Rea, 1st Baron Rea (18 May 1873 – 26 May 1948), was a British merchant banker and Liberal politician.

Rea was the son of

Lord of the Treasury
from 1915 to 1916.

General election 1918: Oldham[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
C
Unionist
 Green tickYEdmund Bartley-Denniss 26,568 34.3 +12.4
C Liberal Green tickY
William Barton
 26,254 34.0 +6.1
Labour William C. Robinson 15,178 19.6 N/A
Liberal Walter Rea 9,323 12.1 −16.0
Turnout 54.2 −32.6
Registered electors 71,378
Majority 11,390 14.7 N/A
Unionist gain from Liberal
 Swing +14.2
Majority 11,076 14.4 +8.6
Liberal hold Swing N/A
C indicates candidate endorsed by the coalition government.

He later represented

National Government of Ramsay MacDonald as Comptroller of the Household. Rea was created a Baronet, of Eskdale in the County of Cumberland, in 1935[2] and in 1937 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Rea, of Eskdale in the County of Cumberland.[3]

Lord Rea married, firstly, Evelyn, daughter of J. J. Muirhead, in 1896. After her death in 1930 he married, secondly, Jemima, daughter of Reverend Alexander Ewing, in 1931. He died in May 1948, aged 75, and was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son from his first marriage, Philip, who became Liberal leader in the House of Lords. His daughter Elisabeth, also from his first marriage, was married to the industrialist Sir Michael Clapham. Lady Rea died in 1964.

Coat of arms of Walter Rea, 1st Baron Rea
Crest
A stag at gaze Gules resting the dexter fore-leg on an anchor Or.
Escutcheon
Or on a fess wavy Azure between three stags courant Gules a lymphad sails furled of the field.
Supporters
On either side a stag Gules each charged on the shoulder with a bezant thereon an anchor Azure.
Motto
In Omnia Promptus [4]

References

  1. ^ The Liberal Year Book (1923), p.261
  2. ^ "No. 34179". The London Gazette. 12 July 1935. p. 4522.
  3. ^ "No. 34408". The London Gazette. 15 June 1937. p. 3856.
  4. ^ Burke's Peerage. 1949.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Scarborough
1906–1918 		constituency abolished
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Bradford North
1923–1924 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Ben Riley
 Member of Parliament for Dewsbury
1931–1935 		Succeeded by
Ben Riley
Political offices
Preceded by Comptroller of the Household
1931–1932 		Succeeded by
Sir Frederick Penny
Party political offices
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Liberal Chief Whip

1931–1935 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Percy Heffer
 Treasurer of the Liberal Party
1941–1947
With: Herbert Worsley (1942–1947) 		Succeeded by
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baron Rea
1937–1948 		Succeeded by
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baronet
(of Eskdale)
1935–1948 		Succeeded by


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