{{Short description|British radical Liberal politician}} {{EngvarB|date=September 2013}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2024}} {{infobox officeholder | name = Charles Henry Roberts | image = Charles_Henry_Roberts.jpg | caption = ''Photograph of Roberts, 1917'' | office = Member of Parliament for Derby | term_start = 1922 | term_end = 1923 | alongside = J. H. Thomas | predecessor = J. H. Thomas<br />Albert Green | successor = J. H. Thomas<br />William Raynes | office1 = Member of Parliament for Lincoln | term_start1 = 1906 | term_end1 = 1918 | predecessor1 = Charles Seely | successor1 = Alfred Davies | office2 = Comptroller of the Household | term_start2 = 1915 | term_end2 = 1916 | predecessor2 = The Lord Saye and Sele | successor2 = Sir Edwin Cornwall, Bt | office3 = Under-Secretary of State for India | term_start3 = 1914 | term_end3 = 1915 | predecessor3 = Edwin Montagu | successor3 = The Lord Islington | birth_date = {{birth date|1865|08|22|df=yes}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|1959|06|25|1865|08|22|df=yes}} | death_place = | education = Marlborough College | alma_mater = Balliol College, Oxford | party = Liberal | spouse = {{marriage|Lady Cecilia Maude Howard<br />|7 April 1891|1947|reason=her death}} | children = Wilfrid Roberts<br />Winifred Nicholson | relations = }} thumb|right|Charles Roberts, 1910 '''Charles Henry Roberts''' (22 August 1865 – 25 June 1959) was a British radical Liberal politician.<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2XWGuS25msYC&pg=PA293 |title = Political Change and the Labour Party 1900-1918|isbn = 9780521530538|last1 = Tanner|first1 = Duncan|date = 13 February 2003| publisher=Cambridge University Press }}</ref>
==Early life== Roberts was the son of Reverend Albert James Roberts, Vicar of Tidebrook, Sussex and Ellen Wace of Wadhurst, Sussex and was educated at Marlborough College and Balliol College, Oxford.<ref name = Times>{{cite web|url = http://www.ghgraham.org/text/charleshenryroberts1865_obit.html|title= Obituary of Charles Henry Roberts|work= The Times, Friday, 26 Jun 1959 |access-date = 6 February 2014}}</ref>
He was a fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, where he taught from 1889 to 1895.
==Career== He was the unsuccessful Liberal candidate for Wednesbury in the 1895 general election and for Lincoln in 1900. He was elected to Parliament for Lincoln in the 1906 general election and reelected in both elections in 1910.
He served under H. H. Asquith as Under-Secretary of State for India 1914 to 1915. He was then made both Comptroller of the Household and Chairman of the National Health Insurance Joint Committee from 1915 to 1916.
He lost his seat in 1918 when the Coalition Government gave endorsement to his Unionist opponent, but returned briefly to the House of Commons in 1922 when he was elected for Derby. However, he lost this seat in the 1923 general election and retired from national politics.
He afterwards committed himself to work creation schemes in Cumberland, reopening collieries and starting brickworks, limeworks and quarries. He also became involved in farming. From 1938 to 1958 he was chairman of Cumberland County Council and the Cumberland branch of the National Farmers' Union. He also chaired the Aborigines' Protection Society. He was Chairman of the Cumberland War Agricultural Committee, 1939–47. He served as a Justice of the Peace in Cumberland from 1900 to 1950 and was Deputy Chairman of Cumberland Quarter Sessions until 1950.<ref name = Times/>
==Personal life== On 7 April 1891, he was married Lady Cecilia Maude Howard, daughter of George Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle.<ref name="EarlCarlisle">{{cite web |title=Carlisle, Earl of (E, 1661) |url=http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/carlisle1661.htm |website=cracroftspeerage.co.uk |publisher=Heraldic Media Limited |access-date=14 April 2020 |archive-date=19 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181019190032/http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/carlisle1661.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> They had one son and two daughters, including.
* Rosa Winifred Roberts (1893–1981), an artist who married the English painter Ben Nicholson. * Wilfrid Hubert Wace Roberts (1900–1991), a Liberal MP who married three times.<ref name="Debretts1931">{{cite book|title=Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage|year=1931|publisher=Kelly's Directories|page=188}}</ref>
Lady Cecilia died in 1947.<ref>'ROBERTS, Charles Henry', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U242345, accessed 20 Dec 2013]</ref> Roberts died on 25 June 1959.
=== Election results ===
{{Election box begin | title=General election 1900 Lincoln<ref name="ReferenceA">British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)</ref> Electorate 8,846}} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Liberal Unionist Party (UK) |candidate = Charles Seely |votes =4,002 |percentage = 50.4 |change = }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Liberal Party (UK) |candidate = '''Charles Roberts''' |votes = 3,935 |percentage = 49.6 |change = }} {{Election box majority| |votes = 67 |percentage = 0.8 |change = }} {{Election box turnout| |votes = |percentage = |change = }} {{Election box hold with party link| |winner = Conservative Party (UK) |swing = }} {{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin | title=General election 1906 Lincoln<ref name="ReferenceA">British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)</ref> Electorate 10,645}} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Liberal Party (UK) |candidate = '''Charles Roberts''' |votes = 5,110 |percentage = 51.2 |change = +1.6 }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Liberal Unionist Party (UK) |candidate = Charles Seely |votes =3,718 |percentage = 37.2 |change = -3.2 }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Conservative Party (UK) |candidate = Henry Page Croft |votes =1,162 |percentage = 11.6 |change = n/a }} {{Election box majority| |votes = 1,392 |percentage = 14.0 |change = 14.8 }} {{Election box turnout| |votes = |percentage = 93.8 |change = }} {{Election box gain with party link| |winner = Liberal Party (UK) |loser = Conservative Party (UK) |swing = +7.4 }} {{Election box end}} {{Election box begin | |title=General election January 1910 Lincoln<ref name="ReferenceA">British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)</ref> Electorate }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Liberal Party (UK) |candidate = '''Charles Roberts''' |votes = 5,402 |percentage = 50.2 |change = -1.0 }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Conservative Party (UK) |candidate = Robert Filmer |votes = 3,236 |percentage = 30.1 |change = +18.5 }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Liberal Unionist Party (UK) |candidate = Charles Seely |votes =2,129 |percentage = 19.8 |change = -17.4 }} {{Election box majority| |votes = 2,166 |percentage = 20.1 |change = +6.1 }} {{Election box turnout| |votes = 10,767 |percentage = |change = }} {{Election box hold with party link| |winner = Liberal Party (UK) |swing = }} {{Election box end}} {{Election box begin | |title=General election December 1910 Lincoln<ref name="ReferenceA">British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)</ref> Electorate }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Liberal Party (UK) |candidate = '''Charles Roberts''' |votes = 5,484 |percentage = 52.9 |change = +2.7 }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Conservative Party (UK) |candidate = Robert Filmer |votes = 4,878 |percentage = 47.1 |change = +17.0 }} {{Election box majority| |votes = 606 |percentage = 5.8 |change = -14.3 }} {{Election box turnout| |votes = 10,362 |percentage = |change = }} {{Election box hold with party link| |winner = Liberal Party (UK) |swing = -7.1 }} {{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin | |title=General election 1918: Lincoln<ref>British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig</ref> Electorate 31,365 }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Unionist Party (UK) |candidate = Alfred Davies |votes = 11,114 |percentage = 47.7 |change = +0.6 }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Labour Party (UK) |candidate = Robert Taylor |votes = 6,658 |percentage = 28.5 |change = n/a }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Liberal Party (UK) |candidate = '''Charles Roberts''' |votes = 5,550 |percentage = 23.8 |change = -29.1 }} {{Election box majority| |votes = 4,456 |percentage = 19.2 |change = 25.0 }} {{Election box turnout| |votes = |percentage = 74.4 |change = }} {{Election box gain with party link| |winner = Unionist Party (UK) |loser =Liberal Party (UK) |swing = +14.8 }} {{Election box end}}
== References == {{Reflist}} *{{Rayment|date=February 2013}}
== External links == * {{Hansard-contribs | mr-charles-roberts | Charles Roberts }}
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