| Sir John Pybus | |
| Office: | Minister of Transport |
| Primeminister: | Ramsay MacDonald |
| Term Start: | 3 September 1931 |
| Term End: | 22 February 1933 |
| Predecessor: | Herbert Morrison |
| Successor: | Oliver Stanley |
| Constituency Mp1: | Harwich |
| Term Start1: | 30 May 1929 |
| Term End1: | 23 October 1935 |
| Predecessor1: | Sir Frederick Gill Rice |
| Successor1: | Stanley Holmes |
| Birth Date: | 25 January 1880 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Party: | National Liberal |
Sir Percy John Pybus, 1st Baronet, (25 January 1880 – 23 October 1935) was a British Liberal Party politician.
Having completed an engineering apprenticeship John Pybus joined electrical engineers Phoenix Dynamo Manufacturing Company when aged 26. During World War I he was appointed managing director. Phoenix became a major constituent of the amalgamation of businesses named English Electric in 1918 and Pybus became a joint managing director with two others. He was appointed managing director of English Electric in March 1921[1] and chairman in April 1926.[2] He was a member of many boards of directors including The Times newspaper and chairman of others including Phoenix Assurance.[3]
In October 1928 he was selected as Liberal candidate for the Harwich Division.[4] He remained a director of English Electric.
Pybus was first elected at the May 1929 general election, as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Harwich in Essex.[3]
In 1931, when Labour Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald split the party and formed a National Government. Pybus was one of the Liberal MPs to receive a ministerial post but then left to help form the breakaway Liberal National Party. Re-elected in Harwich at the 1931 general election as a Liberal National, Pybus served as Minister of Transport from 1931 until 1933.
Created a Commander of the British Empire in 1917 he was made a baronet, of Harwich in the County of Essex, in January 1934, and died on 23 October 1935, just weeks before the 1935 general election. His title became extinct on his death.[3]