John Pybus

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Sir John Pybus | honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|Bt|CBE}} | image = John_Pybus.jpg | office = Minister of Transport | prime_minister = Ramsay MacDonald | term_start = 3 September 1931 | term_end = 22 February 1933 | predecessor = Herbert Morrison | successor = Oliver Stanley | constituency_MP1 = Harwich | term_start1 = 30 May 1929 | term_end1 = 23 October 1935 | predecessor1 = Sir Frederick Gill Rice | successor1 = Stanley Holmes | birth_date = 25 January 1880 | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|1935|10|23|1880|1|25|df=y}} | death_place = | resting_place = | birth_name = | party = National Liberal | other_party = Liberal | spouse = | relations = | children = | alma_mater = | signature = }} '''Sir Percy John Pybus, 1st Baronet''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE}} (25 January 1880 – 23 October 1935) was a British Liberal Party politician.

==Business career== Having completed an engineering apprenticeship John Pybus joined electrical engineers Phoenix Dynamo Manufacturing Company when aged 26. During World War I he was appointed managing director. Phoenix became a major constituent of the amalgamation of businesses named English Electric in 1918 and Pybus became a joint managing director with two others. He was appointed managing director of English Electric in March 1921<ref>City News in Brief, ''The Times'', Friday, 11 Mar 1921; pg. 17; Issue 42666</ref> and chairman in April 1926.<ref>English Electric Company. ''The Times'', Thursday, 22 Apr 1926; pg. 21; Issue 44252</ref> He was a member of many boards of directors including ''The Times'' newspaper and chairman of others including Phoenix Assurance.<ref name=TT47203>Sir John Pybus, M.P. ''The Times'', Thursday, 24 Oct 1935; pg. 16; Issue 47203</ref>

In October 1928 he was selected as Liberal candidate for the Harwich Division.<ref>Ashton By-Election. '' The Times'', Monday, 22 Oct 1928; pg. 9; Issue 45030</ref> He remained a director of English Electric.

==Parliament== Pybus was first elected at the May 1929 general election, as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Harwich in Essex.<ref name=TT47203/>

In 1931, when Labour Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald split the party and formed a National Government. Pybus was one of the Liberal MPs to receive a ministerial post but then left to help form the breakaway Liberal National Party. Re-elected in Harwich at the 1931 general election as a Liberal National, Pybus served as Minister of Transport from 1931 until 1933.

==Honours== Created a Commander of the British Empire in 1917 he was made a baronet, of Harwich in the County of Essex, in January 1934, and died on 23 October 1935, just weeks before the 1935 general election. His title became extinct on his death.<ref name=TT47203/>

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