Percy Illingworth Explained

Percy Illingworth
Order1:Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury
Term Start1:7 August 1912
Term End1:3 January 1915
Monarch1:George V
Primeminister1:H. H. Asquith
Predecessor1:The Master of Elibank
Successor1:John Gulland
Birth Date:19 March 1869
Birth Place:Bradford, Yorkshire, England
Death Place:Paddington, London, England
Nationality:British
Party:Liberal
Alma Mater:Jesus College, Cambridge
Honorific Prefix:The Right Honourable
Relations:Albert Illingworth, 1st Baron Illingworth (brother)

Percy Holden Illingworth (19 March 1869 – 3 January 1915) was a British Liberal politician. He served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury under H. H. Asquith between 1912 and 1915.

Background and education

Illingworth was the third and youngest son of Henry Illingworth, of Bradford, a member of an old Yorkshire family, and his wife Mary, daughter of Sir Isaac Holden, 1st Baronet. Albert Illingworth, 1st Baron Illingworth, was his elder brother.[1] He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he played rugby for the university, winning two sporting 'Blues' in The Varsity Matches of 1889 and 1890. He was called to the Bar, Inner Temple, in 1894. He later served in the Second Boer War.

Political career

In 1906 Illingworth was returned to Parliament for Shipley, and served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Chief Secretary for Ireland (James Bryce and Augustine Birrell respectively) from 1906 to 1910. From February 1910 to April 1912, he was a Junior Lord of the Treasury under H. H. Asquith. In 1912 Asquith appointed him Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury, a post he held until his sudden death in early 1915. He had been nominated to the Privy Council but died before he could be sworn in.

Family

Illingworth married Mary Mackenzie Coats (b. 1883), daughter of George Coats, of Staneley, Renfrewshire, on 16 January 1907, at Paisley. They had three sons. He died suddenly in January 1915 of typhoid fever.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Pine, L.G. . The New Extinct Peerage, 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant & Suspended Peerages with Genealogies and Arms . 1973 . Genealogical Publishing Company . 978-0-8063-0521-9 . 155–156 . en.
  2. Jesus College Cambridge Society Annual Report 1915, page 18