Henry Strutt, 2nd Baron Belper
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Henry Strutt, 2nd Baron Belper PC
, JP
, DL
(20 May 1840 – 26 July 1914), styled The Honourable Henry Strutt between 1856 and 1880, was a British businessman, courtier and politician. Initially a Liberal
, he left the party over Irish Home Rule and later held office as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms from 1895 to 1905 in the Unionist administrations headed by Lord Salisbury
and Arthur Balfour
.
, Derbyshire
, the son of Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper
, and his wife wife Amelia Harriet Otter. He was educated at Harrow
and Trinity College, Cambridge
, from which he held the degrees of LLB and MA
. In 1862 he played cricket for Cambridge University
and from 1863 to 1865 for MCC
against the universities. He became president of the family cotton business W. G. & J. Strutt.
, Strutt was elected Member of Parliament
for East Derbyshire
in 1868, a seat he until 1874. At the 1880 general election
he was returned for Berwick-upon-Tweed
, which he represented until he succeeded his father in the barony on 30 June 1880 and entered the House of Lords
.
Lord Belper later left the Liberal Party over Irish Home Rule and joined the Liberal Unionists. When Lord Salisbury
formed his last administration in 1895, Belper was sworn of the Privy Council
and appointed Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, a post he held until the fall of the government in 1905, the last three years under the premiership of Arthur Balfour
.
Lord Belper was also an Aide-de-Camp
to Queen Victoria, Edward VII
and George V
between 1894 and 1914. He was also a Lieutenant-Colonel in the South Nottinghamshire Yeomanry
, a Justice of the Peace
for Derbyshire
, Leicestershire
and Nottinghamshire
and a Deputy Lieutenant
of Nottinghamshire.
, at Holkham
, Norfolk
, on 2 May 1874. They had three sons and five daughters:
Lord Belper died at Kingston Hall, Nottinghamshire
, in July 1914, aged 74, and was succeeded in the barony by his third but eldest surviving son, Algernon.
Privy Council of the United Kingdom
Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, usually known simply as the Privy Council, is a formal body of advisers to the Sovereign in the United Kingdom...
, JP
Justice of the Peace
A justice of the peace is a puisne judicial officer elected or appointed by means of a commission to keep the peace. Depending on the jurisdiction, they might dispense summary justice or merely deal with local administrative applications in common law jurisdictions...
, DL
Deputy Lieutenant
In the United Kingdom, a Deputy Lieutenant is one of several deputies to the Lord Lieutenant of a lieutenancy area; an English ceremonial county, Welsh preserved county, Scottish lieutenancy area, or Northern Irish county borough or county....
(20 May 1840 – 26 July 1914), styled The Honourable Henry Strutt between 1856 and 1880, was a British businessman, courtier and politician. Initially a Liberal
Liberal Party (UK)
The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...
, he left the party over Irish Home Rule and later held office as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms from 1895 to 1905 in the Unionist administrations headed by Lord Salisbury
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, KG, GCVO, PC , styled Lord Robert Cecil before 1865 and Viscount Cranborne from June 1865 until April 1868, was a British Conservative statesman and thrice Prime Minister, serving for a total of over 13 years...
and Arthur Balfour
Arthur Balfour
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, PC, DL was a British Conservative politician and statesman...
.
Background and education
Strutt was born at St Helen's House, DerbyDerby
Derby , is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands region of England. It lies upon the banks of the River Derwent and is located in the south of the ceremonial county of Derbyshire. In the 2001 census, the population of the city was 233,700, whilst that of the Derby Urban Area was 229,407...
, Derbyshire
Derbyshire
Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England. A substantial portion of the Peak District National Park lies within Derbyshire. The northern part of Derbyshire overlaps with the Pennines, a famous chain of hills and mountains. The county contains within its boundary of approx...
, the son of Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper
Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper
Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper PC, FRS , was a British Liberal Party politician. He served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1852 to 1854 under Lord Aberdeen.-Background and education:...
, and his wife wife Amelia Harriet Otter. He was educated at Harrow
Harrow School
Harrow School, commonly known simply as "Harrow", is an English independent school for boys situated in the town of Harrow, in north-west London.. The school is of worldwide renown. There is some evidence that there has been a school on the site since 1243 but the Harrow School we know today was...
and Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 170 Fellows...
, from which he held the degrees of LLB and MA
Master of Arts (Oxbridge)
In the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin, Bachelors of Arts of these universities are admitted to the degree of Master of Arts or Master in Arts on application after six or seven years' seniority as members of the university .There is no examination or study required for the degree...
. In 1862 he played cricket for Cambridge University
Cambridge University Cricket Club
Cambridge University Cricket Club is a first-class cricket team. It now plays all but one of its first-class cricket matches as part of the Cambridge University Centre of Cricketing Excellence , which includes Anglia Ruskin University...
and from 1863 to 1865 for MCC
Marylebone Cricket Club
Marylebone Cricket Club is a cricket club in London founded in 1787. Its influence and longevity now witness it as a private members' club dedicated to the development of cricket. It owns, and is based at, Lord's Cricket Ground in St John's Wood, London NW8. MCC was formerly the governing body of...
against the universities. He became president of the family cotton business W. G. & J. Strutt.
Political career
Initially a LiberalLiberal Party (UK)
The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...
, Strutt was elected Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament
A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...
for East Derbyshire
East Derbyshire (UK Parliament constituency)
East Derbyshire was a parliamentary constituency in Derbyshire which elected two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain....
in 1868, a seat he until 1874. At the 1880 general election
United Kingdom general election, 1880
-Seats summary:-References:*F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987* British Electoral Facts 1832-1999, compiled and edited by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher *...
he was returned for Berwick-upon-Tweed
Berwick-upon-Tweed (UK Parliament constituency)
Berwick-upon-Tweed is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.-Boundaries:...
, which he represented until he succeeded his father in the barony on 30 June 1880 and entered the House of Lords
House of Lords
The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster....
.
Lord Belper later left the Liberal Party over Irish Home Rule and joined the Liberal Unionists. When Lord Salisbury
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, KG, GCVO, PC , styled Lord Robert Cecil before 1865 and Viscount Cranborne from June 1865 until April 1868, was a British Conservative statesman and thrice Prime Minister, serving for a total of over 13 years...
formed his last administration in 1895, Belper was sworn of the Privy Council
Privy Council of the United Kingdom
Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, usually known simply as the Privy Council, is a formal body of advisers to the Sovereign in the United Kingdom...
and appointed Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, a post he held until the fall of the government in 1905, the last three years under the premiership of Arthur Balfour
Arthur Balfour
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, PC, DL was a British Conservative politician and statesman...
.
Lord Belper was also an Aide-de-Camp
Aide-de-camp
An aide-de-camp is a personal assistant, secretary, or adjutant to a person of high rank, usually a senior military officer or a head of state...
to Queen Victoria, Edward VII
Edward VII of the United Kingdom
Edward VII was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910...
and George V
George V of the United Kingdom
George V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 through the First World War until his death in 1936....
between 1894 and 1914. He was also a Lieutenant-Colonel in the South Nottinghamshire Yeomanry
South Nottinghamshire Hussars
The South Nottinghamshire Hussars were a unit of the British Army formed as volunteer cavalry in 1794. Converted to artillery in 1922, it now forms a battery of a Territorial Army regiment.-World War I:...
, a Justice of the Peace
Justice of the Peace
A justice of the peace is a puisne judicial officer elected or appointed by means of a commission to keep the peace. Depending on the jurisdiction, they might dispense summary justice or merely deal with local administrative applications in common law jurisdictions...
for Derbyshire
Derbyshire
Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England. A substantial portion of the Peak District National Park lies within Derbyshire. The northern part of Derbyshire overlaps with the Pennines, a famous chain of hills and mountains. The county contains within its boundary of approx...
, Leicestershire
Leicestershire
Leicestershire is a landlocked county in the English Midlands. It takes its name from the heavily populated City of Leicester, traditionally its administrative centre, although the City of Leicester unitary authority is today administered separately from the rest of Leicestershire...
and Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire is a county in the East Midlands of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west...
and a Deputy Lieutenant
Deputy Lieutenant
In the United Kingdom, a Deputy Lieutenant is one of several deputies to the Lord Lieutenant of a lieutenancy area; an English ceremonial county, Welsh preserved county, Scottish lieutenancy area, or Northern Irish county borough or county....
of Nottinghamshire.
Family
Lord Belper married Lady Margaret Coke, daughter of Thomas Coke, 2nd Earl of LeicesterThomas Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester
Thomas William Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester KG , known as Viscount Coke from 1837 to 1842, was a British peer....
, at Holkham
Holkham
Holkham is a village and civil parish in the north-west of the county of Norfolk, England. Besides the small village, the parish includes the major stately home and estate of Holkham Hall, and an attractive beach at Holkham Gap...
, Norfolk
Norfolk
Norfolk is a low-lying county in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast and to the north-west the county is bordered by The Wash. The county...
, on 2 May 1874. They had three sons and five daughters:
- Hon. William Strutt (8 February 1875 - 5 October 1898).
- Hon. Norah Strutt (17 June 1876 - 14 September 1948) married, Major Robert Lee Morris, son of General Morris, on 20 November 1911. Secondly, Reverend Joseph David Samuel Parry-Evans, son of Major Samuel Evans, in 1920.
- Hon. Lilian Strutt (31 October 1877 - 22 February 1956) married Vernon Austen Malcolmson on 10 January 1901.
- Hon. Hilda Strutt (25 May 1879 - 28 April 1923) married Charles Israel Loraine Allix on 23 October 1906.
- Hon. Reginald Edward Strutt (12 July 1881 - 10 May 1888).
- Algernon Henry Strutt, 3rd Baron BelperAlgernon Strutt, 3rd Baron BelperAlgernon Henry Strutt was 3rd Baron Belper from 1914 to 1956.He entered the British Army in August 1908 and gained the rank of Lieutenant in the service of the 2nd Life Guards...
(6 May 1883 - 20 May 1956). - Hon. Margaret Strutt (4 February 1886 - 23 April 1980).
- Hon. Muriel Strutt (30 October 1890 - 8 August 1976) married Major Frank Haultain Hornsby, son of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Francis Hornsby, on 30 November 1916.
Lord Belper died at Kingston Hall, Nottinghamshire
Kingston Hall, Nottinghamshire
Kingston Hall is a country house in Kingston on Soar, Nottinghamshire.It was built between 1842 and 1846 to designs by the architect Edward Blore for Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper...
, in July 1914, aged 74, and was succeeded in the barony by his third but eldest surviving son, Algernon.