{{short description|British politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2017}} {{Use British English|date=November 2017}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = The Right Honourable | name = The Lord Marchamley | honorific_suffix = PC | image = George Whiteley MP.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = George Whiteley MP, circa 1906 | office = {{ubl|Government Chief Whip in the House of Commons|Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury}} | term_start = 12 December 1905 | term_end = 1 June 1908 | monarch = Edward VII | prime_minister = Henry Campbell-Bannerman<br />H. H. Asquith | predecessor = Alexander Acland-Hood | successor = Jack Pease | office1 = Member of Parliament<br />for Pudsey | term_start1 = 10 October 1900 | term_end1 = 1 June 1908 | predecessor1 = Briggs Priestley | successor1 = John James Oddy | office2 = Member of Parliament<br />for Stockport | term_start2 = 22 February 1893 | term_end2 = 10 October 1900 | predecessor2 = Louis John Jennings | successor2 = Joseph Leigh | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1855|08|30|df=yes}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|21 October 1925|30 August 1855}} | death_place = London, England, UK | party = Liberal (1900–1925) | other_party = Conservative (Before 1900) | height = | spouse = Alice Tattersall (d. 1913) | relations = Herbert (brother) | children = | father = George Whiteley | relatives = | education = | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = }} '''George Whiteley, 1st Baron Marchamley''' PC (30 August 1855 – 21 October 1925) was a British Conservative turned Liberal Party politician. He served as Chief Whip between 1905 and 1908 in the Liberal administrations of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and H. H. Asquith.
==Background== Whiteley was the eldest son of George Whiteley, JP, of Woodlands, Blackburn, Lancashire.<ref name="debrett">Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, {{Page needed |date=February 2013}}</ref> His brother, Herbert, also became a Member of Parliament.
He was partner in a cotton-spinning firm and had major brewing interests.<ref name=CompPeerage>{{cite book|title=The Complete Peerage, Volume XIII|year=1940|publisher=St Catherine's Press, London|page=92}}</ref>
==Political career== As a Conservative,<ref name=CompPeerage /> Whiteley was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Stockport from 1893 to 1900.<ref name="debrett"/><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Scommons5.htm |title=leighrayment.com House of Commons: Stamford and Spalding to Stroud and Thornbury |access-date=11 November 2009 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181003152447/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Scommons5.htm |archive-date=3 October 2018 }}</ref> He then joined the Liberal Party, in whose interest he was elected M.P. in 1900 for Pudsey, serving until 1908.<ref name="debrett"/><ref name=CompPeerage /><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Pcommons2.htm |title=leighrayment.com House of Commons: Plymouth to Putney |access-date=11 November 2009 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181127183301/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Pcommons2.htm |archive-date=27 November 2018 }}</ref> He became Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Chief Whip) when the Liberals came to power in December 1905,<ref name="debrett"/> and was made a Privy Counsellor in 1907.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=28092 |date=24 December 1907 |page=8966 }}</ref> On 1 June 1908, he resigned from Parliament by accepting appointment as Steward of the Manor of Northstead.<ref>{{Citation | date = 4 June 1908 | title = Parliament - House Of Commons - New Writ | periodical = The Times | page=6 col. 1 }} </ref> It was thought that his retirement was due entirely to insomnia, from which he had suffered for a long period.<ref>{{Citation | date = 19 May 1908 | title = The Representation of the Pudsey Division | periodical = The Times | page=11 col. 1 }} </ref> On 3 July 1908 he was raised to the peerage as '''Baron Marchamley''', of Hawkstone in the County of Shropshire.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=28156 |date=7 July 1908 |page=4938 }}</ref><ref>{{Citation | date = 8 July 1908 | title = The New Peers | periodical = The Times | page=15 col. 4 }} </ref> He contributed occasionally in the House of Lords, making his last speech in November 1919.<ref>[https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/people/mr-george-whiteley/index.html Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) Mr George Whiteley]</ref> The Complete Peerage summarised up his oratory as: "A ready speaker, with a somewhat caustic humour, he was on the platform an effective asset to the Liberal Party".<ref name=CompPeerage />
He was made a JP for the counties of Hampshire in 1900, and Shropshire in 1908.<ref name=Kellys>{{cite book|title=Kelly's Handbook of the Titled, Landed and Official Classes, 1925|publisher=Kelly's|page=1089}}</ref>
==Family== Lord Marchamley married Alice, only child of William Tattersall, JP, of Quarry Bank, Blackburn, and St Anthony's Milnthorpe, in 1881. In 1907, he purchased, from the 4th Viscount Hill, Hawkstone Hall and its estates in Shropshire, later selling them in 1923.<ref name=CompPeerage2>{{cite book|title= The Complete Peerage, Volume VI|year=1926|page=522}}</ref> His own title was taken from the village of Marchamley, near Hawkstone Hall, and after Hawkstone itself.
Lady Marchamley died in 1913. Marchamley survived her by twelve years and died at his home, 29 Princes Gardens, London,<ref name=CompPeerage /> after an operation<ref name=ShrewsburyChronicle>{{cite news |title=Death of Lord Marchamley |newspaper=Shrewsbury Chronicle |date=23 October 1925 |page=10}}</ref> in October 1925, aged 70. He was buried in the churchyard of St Luke's, Weston-under-Redcastle, Shropshire. He was succeeded in the barony by his son, William.<ref name="debrett"/>
==Arms== {{Infobox COA wide |image = centre|150pxcentre|200px |escutcheon = Per fesse dancettée Sable and Gules in chief a pale Or thereon three bars of the second in base a fleur de lis Argent. |crest = A stag’s head couped Argent attired Or holding in the mouth a bell Gold. |supporters = Dexter a griffin sejant sinister a hawk both per fess Gules and Sable armed and membered Or each charged on the fesse line with a fleur-de-lis Argent.<ref>{{cite book|title=Debrett's Peerage |date=1921}}</ref> |motto = Live To Live}}
==Gallery== [[File:Unemployed Workmens bill 1908.jpg|thumb|Punch cartoon depicting Liberal versus Labour voting issues arising from a comment by George Whiteley<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Partridge |first=Bernard |date=1908 |title=Called to heel |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_punch_1908-03-25_134/page/218 |journal=Punch |location= |publication-place=London: Bouverie Street |volume=134 |pages=218}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=British socialists lose |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/03/14/archives/british-socialists-lose-liberals-throw-them-over-in-vote-on.html |access-date=11 March 2022 |website=New York Times}}</ref>]]
== References == {{reflist|2}}
== External links == * {{Hansard-contribs | mr-george-whiteley | George Whiteley }}
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