Alfred Emmott, 1st Baron Emmott

Alfred Emmott, 1st Baron Emmott

Alfred Emmott, 1st Baron Emmott GCMG GBE PC (1858 - 13 December 1926) was a British Liberal politician.

The eldest surviving son of Thomas Emmott of Brookfield, Oldham, he was educated at Grove House, Tottenham and at the University of London. In 1881, he entered the Oldham city council and in 1891 became mayor.

He was Mayor of Oldham from 1891-1892 and sat as Liberal Member of Parliament for Oldham from 1899-1911. In the House of Commons he was Chairman of Ways and Means from 1906-1911, and then served in government as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1911-1914 and as First Commissioner of Works from 1914-1915. He was Director of the War Trade Department from 1915-1919. He chaired the Royal Commission on Decimal Coinage from 1918–1920. He was President of the Royal Statistical Society from 1922-24.

He was a churchman, but his education at the Friends' School and his ancestry led him to sympathize with nonconformists.

He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1908. He was raised to the peerage as Baron Emmott, of Oldham, in 1911. The peerage became extinct on his death. He was awarded the GCMG in 1914 and the GBE in 1917.

He died very suddenly from angina pectoris at his home in London, the day on which he was engaged to speak at a Liberal Party rally.


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