Percy Illingworth

Percy Holden Illingworth (1869 – 3 January 1915) was a Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom.

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. He was educated at Cambridge University and was called to the Bar, Inner Temple, in 1894. He later served in the Second Boer War. 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 and was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury in 1912, a post he held until his death in early 1915 due to food poisoning from a bad oyster, aged only 45. He had been nominated to the Privy Council but died before he could be sworn in.

Illingworth married Mary Mackenzie Coats (b. 1883) on 16 January 1907, at Paisley. They had three sons.

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