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George Askwith, 1st Baron Askwith

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Askwith in 1911 became chairman of the recently-constituted Industrial Council. It brought together industrialists and trade union representatives, in an unsuccessful attempt to create a central hub for conciliation and arbitration of disputes. In 1912 he made a special report for the Government on
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as assistant secretary, and in 1909 was appointed comptroller-general of the Commercial, Labour and Statistical Departments of the Board of Trade. He acted as arbitrator in many industrial disputes, and in 1911 was made a Knight Commander of the
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between 1922 and 1924, Treasurer of the Royal Society of Arts between 1925 and 1927 and its Vice-President between 1927 and 1938. He was also President of the Institute of Patentees and Inventors between 1925 and 1942. He published
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trades strike which lasted for two months and involved in the region of 40,000 workers. In 1915 he was appointed chairman of the Government Arbitration Committee under the
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Lord Askwith died June 1942, aged 81, when the barony became extinct. Lady Askwith died in January 1962.
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A Cross Crosslet fitchée between two Wings erect Sable each charged with a Rose as in the Arms
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In 1908, Lord Askwith married Ellen Peel, daughter of Archibald Peel, nephew of the statesman
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Askwith was from an old Yorkshire family, the great-grandson of William Askwith, Mayor of
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Sable a Fess between in chief two Cross Crosslets and in base a Rose argent
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At the start of his legal career, Askwith was in the legal chambers of
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Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886
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On either side a Dove holding in the beak an Olive Branch all proper
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the Canadian labour laws, and in 1913 arbitrated in the major
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in 1880, graduating B.A. in 1884 and M.A. in 1887. He was
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Lowe, Rodney. "Askwith, George Ranken, Baron Askwith".
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Lord Askwith was later Chairman of the Council of the
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George Askwith
The Right Honourable
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Wallace Hester
Vanity Fair
Waltham Abbey
Essex
Chelsea, London
Alma mater
Brasenose College, Oxford
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KC
English
Ripon
Marlborough College
Brasenose College, Oxford
called to the Bar
Middle Temple
Sir Henry James
King's Counsel
Venezuelan arbitration case
Board of Trade
Order of the Bath
Black Country
Munitions of War Act
Royal Society of Arts
Lord James of Hereford
Sir Robert Peel

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