Tonman Mosley, 1st Baron Anslow

Tonman Mosley, 1st Baron Anslow CB DL (16 January 1850-20 August 1933), was a British businessman, judge and politician.

Anslow was a younger son of Sir Tonman Mosley, 3rd Baronet, and his wife Catherine, daughter of Reverend John Wood (see Mosley Baronets for earlier history of the family). His elder brother Sir Oswald Mosley, 4th Baronet, was the grandfather of Sir Oswald Mosley, 6th Baronet. He was educated at Repton and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and was called to the Bar, Inner Temple, in 1874. Anslow unsuccessfully contested Lichfield as a Conservative in the 1885 general election. In 1897 he was appointed Chairman of the Quarter Sessions of Derbyshire, a post he held until 1902, and served as Chairman of the Buckinghamshire County Council from 1904 to 1921. Between 1904 and 1923 he was also Chairman of the North Staffordshire Railway Company. In 1914 Anslow contested Buckinghamshire South as a Liberal, but was once again unsuccessful. He also served as a Deputy Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire and Staffordshire. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1914 and in 1916 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Anslow, of Iver in the County of Buckingham.

Lord Anslow married Lady Hilda Rose, daughter of Archibald Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton, in 1881. They had two sons and two daughters. Both his sons, Captain the Hon. Nicholas Mosley (1882-1915) (who was killed in the First World War) and Edward Hugh Mosley (1884-1910), predeceased him. Lady Anslow died in June 1928. Lord Anslow survived her by five years and died in August 1933, aged 83, when the barony became extinct.

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