Henry Cautley, 1st Baron Cautley

Henry Struther Cautley, 1st Baron Cautley KC (9 December 1863-21 September 1946), known as Sir Henry Cautley, 1st Baronet, from 1924 to 1936, was a British barrister, judge and Conservative politician.

Cautley was the son of Henry Cautley and his wife Mary Ellen (née Strother). He was educated at Charterhouse School and King's College, Cambridge, and was later called to the Bar, Middle Temple. He soon turned to politics and unsuccessfully contested Dewsbury in 1892 and 1895. However, in 1900 he was elected to the House of Commons for Leeds East. Cautley lost this seat in 1906 when he was defeated by James O'Grady but returned to Parliament in 1910 as Member of Parliament for East Grinstead, a seat he held until 1936. Apart from his political career he was also a Recorder of Sunderland from 1918 to 1935. He was made a King's Counsel in 1919 and created a Baronet in 1924. On his retirement from the House of Commons in 1936 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Cautley, of Lindfield in the County of Sussex.

Lord Cautley married Alice, daughter of Bohun henry Chandler Fox, in 1902. The marriage was childless. He died in September 1946, aged 82, when the baronetcy and barony became extinct.

References

* [http://www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/ Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page]
* [http://www.thepeerage.com/ www.thepeerage.com]