Herbert Cayzer, 1st Baron Rotherwick explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Right Honourable
The Lord Rotherwick
Honorific-Suffix:DL
Office6:Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Term Start6:8 June 1939
Term End6:16 March 1958
Hereditary Peerage
Predecessor6:Peerage created
Successor6:The 2nd Lord Rotherwick
Office7:Member of Parliament
for Portsmouth South
Term Start7:13 August 1923
Term End7:8 June 1939
Predecessor7:Leslie Wilson
Successor7:Jocelyn Lucas
Term Start8:14 December 1918
Term End8:3 December 1922
Predecessor8:Constituency established
Successor8:Leslie Wilson
Birth Date:23 July 1881
Party:Conservative
Spouse:Freda Penelope

Herbert Robin Cayzer, 1st Baron Rotherwick DL (23 July 1881 – 16 March 1958), known as Sir Herbert Cayzer, 1st Baronet, from 1924 to 1939, was a British shipping magnate and Conservative Party politician.

Cayzer was the fifth son of Sir Charles Cayzer, 1st Baronet, and his wife Agnes Elisabeth (née Trickey). Sir August Bernard Tellefsen Cayzer, 1st Baronet, was his elder brother. Cayzer was Chairman of the British & Commonwealth Steamship Company Ltd, of Clan Line Steamers Ltd and of the Union Castle Mail Steamship Company Ltd and also sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for Portsmouth South from 1918 to 1922. Shortly after the 1922 general election, he stood down in order that Leslie Wilson, the Chief Whip, could take the seat – Wilson had been defeated in his own constituency.[1] Cayzer stood for Portsmouth South again at the 1923 general election and was returned to Parliament, holding the seat until 1939. He was created a Baronet, of Tylney in the County of Southampton, in 1924 and in 1939 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Rotherwick, of Tylney in the County of Southampton.

Lord Rotherwick married Freda Penelope, daughter of William Hans Rathbourne, in 1911. He died in March 1958, aged 76, and was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son Herbert. Lady Rotherwick died in 1961.

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  1. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001851/19221206/087/0061 The Bystander – Wednesday 06 December 1922