Everything about William Davison 1st Baron Broughshane totally explained
William Henry Davison, 1st Baron Broughshane KBE FSA JP DL (
1872 –
19 January 1953) was a
British peer and
Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for
Kensington South for twenty-four years.
Davison was born in
Broughshane,
County Antrim, the son of Richard Davison and his wife Annie
née Patrick. He was educated at
Shrewsbury and graduated from
Keble College, Oxford in
1895 with a
Bachelor of Arts. In
1895, he was admitted to the
Inner Temple as a barrister and earned his
Master of Arts from Keble three years later in
1898. That same year, he married Beatrice Mary Roberts, a daughter of Sir
Owen Roberts (and future great-aunt of
Anthony Armstrong-Jones) and they later had four children.
In
1913, he became
Mayor of Kensington, was knighted in
1918 and left the post a year later, becoming MP for Kensington South. In
1929, he divorced his wife and was re-married that year to Louisa Mary Constance Marriott. Davison retired in
1945 and was raised to the peerage as
Baron Broughshane, of Kensington, co. London that year. He died in
1953.
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