Percy Illingworth

{{Short description|British Liberal politician & rugby union player}}

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| name = Percy Illingworth

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| order1 = Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury

| term_start1 = 7 August 1912

| term_end1 = 3 January 1915

| monarch1 = George V

| primeminister1 = H. H. Asquith

| predecessor1 = The Master of Elibank

| successor1 = John Gulland

| birth_date = 19 March 1869

| birth_place = Bradford, Yorkshire, England

| death_date = {{death-date and age|3 January 1915|19 March 1869}}

| death_place = Paddington, London, England

| nationality = British

| party = Liberal

| alma_mater = Jesus College, Cambridge

| spouse = {{marriage|Mary Mackenzie Coats|1907}}

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| relations = Albert Illingworth, 1st Baron Illingworth (brother)

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Percy Holden Illingworth (19 March 1869 – 3 January 1915) was a British Liberal politician. He served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury under H. H. Asquith between 1912 and 1915.

Background and education

Illingworth was the third and youngest son of Henry Illingworth, of Bradford, a member of an old Yorkshire family, and his wife Mary, daughter of Sir Isaac Holden, 1st Baronet. Albert Illingworth, 1st Baron Illingworth, was his elder brother.{{Cite book |last=Pine |first=L.G. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s2FmAAAAMAAJ |title=The New Extinct Peerage, 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant & Suspended Peerages with Genealogies and Arms |date=1973 |publisher=Genealogical Publishing Company |isbn=978-0-8063-0521-9 |pages=155–156 |language=en}} He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he played rugby for the university, winning two sporting 'Blues' in The Varsity Matches of 1889 and 1890. He was called to the Bar, Inner Temple, in 1894. He later served in the Second Boer War.{{acad|id=ILNT887PH|name=Illingworth, Percy Holden}}

Political career

In 1906 Illingworth was returned to Parliament for Shipley,{{Rayment-hc|s|3|date=March 2012}} and served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Chief Secretary for Ireland (James Bryce and Augustine Birrell respectively) from 1906 to 1910. From February 1910{{London Gazette |issue=28346 |date=8 March 1910 |page=1681 }} to April 1912, he was a Junior Lord of the Treasury under H. H. Asquith. In 1912 Asquith appointed him Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury,{{London Gazette |issue=28585 |date=27 February 1912 |page=1447 }} a post he held until his sudden death in early 1915. He had been nominated to the Privy Council but died before he could be sworn in.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20080607022503/http://leighrayment.com/pcouncil/pcouncil3.htm leighrayment.com Privy Counsellors 1915–1968]}}

Family

Illingworth married Mary Mackenzie Coats (b. 1883), daughter of George Coats, of Staneley, Renfrewshire, on 16 January 1907, at Paisley. They had three sons. He died suddenly in January 1915 of typhoid fever.Jesus College Cambridge Society Annual Report 1915, page 18