Hylton Jolliffe, 3rd Baron Hylton explained

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.

Career

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]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Parishes: Chaldon . H. E. Malden . Institute of Historical Research . 1912 . A History of the County of Surrey. 4 . 5 November 2012 .
  2. Web site: Hylton George Hylton Jolliffe, 3rd Baron Hylton. geni.com.