Davison Dalziel, 1st Baron Dalziel of Wooler

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Davison Alexander Dalziel, 1st Baron Dalziel of Wooler (17 October 1852 – 18 April 1928), known as Sir Davison Dalziel, Bt, between 1919 and 1928, was a British newspaper owner and Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons between 1910 and 1927, before a brief period in the House of Lords. He was the founder of Dalziel's News Agency.{{cite web|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p23313.htm|title=Person Page|website=thepeerage.com}}

Life

Dalziel was born in London, the son of Davison Octavian Dalziel and Helen Gaultier.{{cite web|url=http://thepeerage.com/p23313.htm#i233128|title=Person Page|website=thepeerage.com}}

Dalziel moved to New South Wales to work as a journalist for the Sydney Echo. He also spent several years in the United States in the management department of various newspapers, and when he returned to England in 1890 he set up his own business, Dalziel's News Agency. With partners he bought controlling stakes in The Standard and Evening Standard newspapers in 1910. He sold off his newspaper interests to further his work in the cab industry, setting up several companies including General Motor Cab Company Ltd, the Pullman Car Company and the International Sleeping Car Share Trust Ltd.{{cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/32699|title=Oxford DNB article: Dalziel, Davison Alexander, Baron Dalziel of Wooler|year=2004|publisher=Oxford University Press}}

At the January 1910 general election he was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Brixton,{{cite book

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holding the seat until his defeat at the 1923 general election.{{cite book

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}} He was created a baronet in 1919.{{London Gazette |issue=31427 |date=1 July 1919 |page=8221}}

He regained the Brixton seat in 1924, and held it for a further three years until his resignation from the House of Commons on 9 June 1927, by taking the Chiltern Hundreds{{cite web

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In 1927 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Dalziel of Wooler, of Wooler in the County of Northumberland.{{London Gazette |issue=33292 |date=8 July 1927 |page=4406 }}

Personal life

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He married Harriet, daughter of J. G. Dunning, in 1876.

Dalziel died on 18 April 1928, aged 75, when the baronetcy and barony became extinct. In his will, which was only 140 words long, he left over £2,250,000 to Lady Dalziel, who herself died on 7{{nbsp}}December 1938.{{cite news |title=Lady Dalziel of Wooler Dead |work=Western Daily Press |date=8 December 1938 |accessdate=25 December 2015 |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000513/19381208/048/0007| via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}

He is buried in a family mausoleum in the eastern section of Highgate Cemetery in north London, close to the main entrance.