{{short description|British politician}} {{Use British English|date=August 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder |honorific_prefix = The Right Honourable |name = The Lord Wittenham |honorific_suffix = CB DL |image = George Denison Faber, Vanity Fair, 1900-02-08.jpg |caption = "ex opera". Caricature by Henry Charles Seppings-Wright published in Vanity Fair in 1900. |office1 = Member of Parliament <br />for York |alongside1 = John Butcher (1900–1906) <br />Hamar Greenwood (1906–1910) |term_start1 = 24 October 1900 |term_end1 = 10 January 1910 |predecessor1 = John Butcher <br />Lord Charles Beresford |successor1 = Arnold Stephenson Rowntree <br />John Butcher |office2 = Member of Parliament <br />for Clapham |term_start2 = 10 January 1910 |term_end2 = 21 June 1918 |predecessor2 = Percy Thornton |successor2 = Harry Greer |birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1852|12|14}} |birth_place = |death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1931|2|1|1852|12|14}} |death_place = |party = Conservative}} [[File:The Faber grave, Brompton Cemetery.JPG|thumb|The Faber grave, Brompton Cemetery]] '''George Denison Faber, 1st Baron Wittenham''', CB, DL (14 December 1852 – 1 February 1931), known as '''Denison Faber''', was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.
==Background and early life== Faber was the second surviving son of Charles Wilson Faber (1813–1878) a director of the Great Northern Railway<ref>[https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Charles_Wilson_Faber Charles Wilson Faber]</ref> and the nephew of Lord Grimthorpe.<ref name="york">{{Cite web |url=http://www.yorkhistory.org.uk/gdfaber.html |title=York History yorkhistory.org.uk George Denison Faber |accessdate=16 June 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100824114003/http://www.yorkhistory.org.uk/gdfaber.html |archivedate=24 August 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was the brother of Edmund Faber, 1st Baron Faber, and of Mrs Edward Kennard (1850–1936), a novelist.
He was educated at the University of Oxford, where he graduated BA, and in 1879 was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn. From 1887 to 1896 he acted as Registrar of the Privy Council.<ref name=TT07021900 />
==Political career== [[File:Denison Faber (Punch).png|thumb|"Self-confessed Vacuity" (1913). Caricature of Denison Faber from ''Punch''.]] Faber was elected a Member of Parliament (MP) for York in a by-election on 6 February 1900,<ref name=TT07021900>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Election intelligence |date=7 February 1900 |page=11 |issue=36059| }}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette| issue=27163| supp=y|page=908| date=9 February 1900|}}</ref> following the resignation of Lord Charles Beresford. He served until January 1910,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Ycommons.htm |title=leighrayment.com House of Commons: Yardley to Youghal |accessdate=15 September 2010 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090810231739/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Ycommons.htm |archivedate=10 August 2009 }}</ref> when he lost his seat,<ref name="york"/> and was again elected for Clapham from 1910 to 1918.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Ccommons4.htm |title=leighrayment.com House of Commons: Chichester to Clitheroe |accessdate=15 September 2010 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090810231604/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Ccommons4.htm |archivedate=10 August 2009 }}</ref>
He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1905.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27852 |date=7 November 1905 |page=7495}}</ref>
On 29 June 1918, he was elevated to the peerage as '''Baron Wittenham''', of Wallingford in the County of Berkshire.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=30793 |date=12 July 1918 |page=8199 }}</ref>
==Personal life== Faber married, in 1895, Hilda Georgina Graham, youngest daughter of Sir Frederick Graham, 3rd Baronet, of Netherby in Cumberland, and granddaughter of the 12th Duke of Somerset. The marriage was childless. He purchased Howbery Park, a mid-19th century house near Wallingford.
Shortly after his election in 1900, he reportedly donated £1000 (approximate value £106 000 in 2025<ref>https://inflationhistory.com/en-US/?currency=GBP&amount=1000&year=1914</ref>) to the restoration of York Minster and the York Minister Organ Fund.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Ecclesiastical intelligence|date=6 April 1900 | page=11 |issue=36109}}</ref>
He died on 1 February 1931, aged 78, when the barony became extinct.<ref name="york"/> He is buried with his brother Edmund in Brompton Cemetery in London. The monument is currently (2014) concealed behind shrubbery on the east side of the main entrance path from the north but has had a low tunnel created through which it may be viewed.
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== External links == * {{Hansard-contribs | mr-george-faber-1 | George Faber }}
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