John Denison-Pender, 1st Baron Pender

John Cuthbert Denison-Pender, 1st Baron Pender (11 May 1882-4 December 1949), was a British Conservative politician.

Denison-Pender was the son of Sir John Denison-Pender and his wife Beatrice Katherine (née Ellison). His paternal grandfather was Sir John Pender, the submarine communications cables pioneer. He was educated at Hazelwood School in Limpsfield Surrey until the spring of 1896 when he went to Eton College, leaving in 1899. On leaving school he joined the Eastern Telegraph Company passing through several of their branches including cable laying.He was a member of the London County Council between 1910 and 1919 and sat as Member of Parliament for Newmarket from 1913 to 1918 and for Balham and Tooting from 1918 to 1922. Denison-Pender also served in France and Belgium the First World War as a Captain in the Army. In 1937 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Pender, of Porthcurnow in the County of Cornwall.

Lord Pender married Irene, daughter of Sir Ernest de la Rue, in 1906. She died in 1943. Lord Pender survived her by six years and died in December 1949, aged 67. He was succeeded in the barony by his son John Jocelyn Denison-Pender.

References

*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). "Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage" (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
* [http://www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/ Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page]
* [http://www.thepeerage.com/ www.thepeerage.com]