# John Pybus > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/John_Pybus > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/John_Pybus.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pybus > Source revision: 1347256335 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{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](/source/Secretary_of_State_for_Transport) | prime_minister = [Ramsay MacDonald](/source/Ramsay_MacDonald) | term_start = 3 September 1931 | term_end = 22 February 1933 | predecessor = [Herbert Morrison](/source/Herbert_Morrison) | successor = [Oliver Stanley](/source/Oliver_Stanley) | constituency_MP1 = [Harwich](/source/Harwich_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) | term_start1 = 30 May 1929 | term_end1 = 23 October 1935 | predecessor1 = [Sir Frederick Gill Rice](/source/Frederick_Gill_Rice) | successor1 = [Stanley Holmes](/source/Stanley_Holmes%2C_1st_Baron_Dovercourt) | 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](/source/National_Liberal_Party_(UK%2C_1931)) | other_party = [Liberal](/source/Liberal_Party_(UK)) | 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](/source/Liberal_Party_(UK)) politician. ==Business career== Having completed an engineering apprenticeship John Pybus joined electrical engineers [Phoenix Dynamo Manufacturing Company](/source/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](/source/English_Electric) in 1918 and Pybus became a joint managing director with two others. He was appointed managing director of English Electric in March 1921City News in Brief, ''The Times'', Friday, 11 Mar 1921; pg. 17; Issue 42666 and chairman in April 1926.English Electric Company. ''The Times'', Thursday, 22 Apr 1926; pg. 21; Issue 44252 He was a member of many boards of directors including ''The Times'' newspaper and chairman of others including [Phoenix Assurance](/source/Phoenix_Assurance).Sir John Pybus, M.P. ''The Times'', Thursday, 24 Oct 1935; pg. 16; Issue 47203 In October 1928 he was selected as Liberal candidate for the Harwich Division.Ashton By-Election. '' The Times'', Monday, 22 Oct 1928; pg. 9; Issue 45030 He remained a director of English Electric. ==Parliament== Pybus was first elected at the May [1929 general election](/source/1929_United_Kingdom_general_election), as the [Liberal](/source/Liberal_Party_(UK)) [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)) for [Harwich](/source/Harwich_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) in [Essex](/source/Essex). In 1931, when [Labour](/source/Labour_Party_(UK)) Prime Minister [Ramsay MacDonald](/source/Ramsay_MacDonald) split the party and formed a [National Government](/source/National_Government_1931-1935). Pybus was one of the Liberal MPs to receive a ministerial post but then left to help form the breakaway [Liberal National Party](/source/National_Liberal_Party_(UK%2C_1931)). Re-elected in Harwich at the [1931 general election](/source/1931_United_Kingdom_general_election) as a Liberal National, Pybus served as [Minister of Transport](/source/Secretary_of_State_for_Transport) from 1931 until 1933. ==Honours== Created a [Commander](/source/Commander_(order)) of the British Empire in 1917 he was made a [baronet](/source/baronet), of Harwich in the County of Essex, in January 1934, and died on 23 October 1935, just weeks before the [1935](/source/1935_United_Kingdom_general_election) general election. His title became extinct on his death. ==References== {{reflist}} == External links == * {{Hansard-contribs | sir-percy-pybus | John Pybus }} {{s-start}} {{s-par|uk}} {{succession box | title = [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)) for [Harwich](/source/Harwich_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) | years = [1929](/source/1929_United_Kingdom_general_election)–[1935](/source/1935_United_Kingdom_general_election) | before = [Sir Frederick Gill Rice](/source/Frederick_Gill_Rice) | after = [Sir Stanley Holmes](/source/Stanley_Holmes%2C_1st_Baron_Dovercourt) }} {{s-off}} {{succession box | title = [Minister of Transport](/source/Secretary_of_State_for_Transport) | years = 1931–1933 | before = [Herbert Morrison](/source/Herbert_Morrison) | after = [Oliver Stanley](/source/Oliver_Stanley) }} {{s-reg|uk-bt}} {{s-new|creation}} {{s-ttl| title = [Baronet](/source/Pybus_baronets)
'''(of Harwick)''' | years = 1934–1935}} {{s-non| reason = Extinct}} {{s-end}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Pybus, John}} Category:1880 births Category:1935 deaths Category:Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Category:UK MPs 1929–1931 Category:UK MPs 1931–1935 Pybus, Sir Percy, 1st Baronet Category:National Liberal Party (UK, 1931) politicians Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Category:Secretaries of state for transport (UK) {{England-Liberal-UK-MP-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [John Pybus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pybus) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pybus?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.