Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
The Lord Hylton | |
Office2: | Government Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard |
Monarch2: | George V |
Primeminister2: | David Lloyd George Bonar Law Stanley Baldwin |
Term Start2: | 21 May 1918 |
Term End2: | 22 January 1924 |
Predecessor2: | The Lord Suffield |
Successor2: | The Lord Loch |
Office3: | Lord-in-waiting Government Whip |
Monarch3: | George V |
Primeminister3: | H. H. Asquith David Lloyd George |
Term Start3: | 9 June 1915 |
Term End3: | 18 May 1918 |
Predecessor3: | The Lord Ranksborough |
Successor3: | The Lord Somerleyton |
Office4: | Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal |
Term Start4: | 31 October 1899 |
Term End4: | 26 May 1945 Hereditary peerage |
Predecessor4: | The 2nd Baron Hylton |
Successor4: | The 4th Baron Hylton |
Office6: | Member of Parliament for Wells |
Term Start6: | 7 August 1895 |
Term End6: | 31 October 1899 |
Predecessor6: | Sir Richard Paget, Bt. |
Successor6: | Robert Edmund Dickinson |
Birth Date: | 10 November 1862 |
Death Date: | 26 May 1945 |
Party: | Conservative |
Nationality: | British |
Hylton George Hylton Jolliffe, 3rd Baron Hylton (10 November 1862 – 26 May 1945) was a British peer and Conservative politician.
Hylton was the eldest son of Hedworth Jolliffe, 2nd Baron Hylton, and Lady Agnes Mary Byng. Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey was his maternal great-grandfather.
George succeeded the barony in 1899; prior to that he was educated at Eton college and Oriel College, Oxford. He pursued a brief military career as capital for the Somerset imperial yeomanry, then diplomatic service in 1888, then 3rd secretary in 1890 and 2nd secretary in 1894. He became Justice of the peace and county Alderman for Somerset where he sat in politics.
Hylton entered the Diplomatic Service in 1888, but in 1895 he was elected to the House of Commons for Wells. He held this seat until 1899, when he succeeded his father as third Baron Hylton and entered the House of Lords. In June 1915 Hylton was appointed a Lord-in-waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) in the newly formed coalition government, and in 1918 he was promoted him to Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard. The coalition government of David Lloyd George fell in 1922, but Hylton continued as Deputy Chief Whip also under Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin. However, after the first Baldwin government fell in January 1924, he never returned to office.
He was created Viscount Hylton and owned much of Chaldon, of which he was Lord of the manor.[1]
Lord Hylton married Lady Alice Adeliza Hervey, daughter of Frederick Hervey, 3rd Marquess of Bristol, in 1896. He died in May 1945, aged 82, and was succeeded in his titles by his son William George Hervey Jolliffe. Lady Hylton died in 1962.[2]