1363 Frederick Cawley

Constituency : Prestwich  1895-1918

Frederick  took  Prestwich  from  the  Tories.

Frederick  was  born  in  Cheshire. He  was  educated  at  a  local  school  and  Wesley  College, Sheffield. He  became  a  wealthy  cotton  finisher  helped  by  the  death  of  Queen  Victoria  since  he  held  the  patent  for  a  pure  black  dye.

Frederick  opposed  Indian  import  duties  which  he  felt  were  damaging  the  cotton  trade.

Frederick  was  created  a  baronet  in  1906.

In  1915  Frederick  headed  the  Liberal  War  Committee. When  Lloyd  George  took  over  he  joined  the  Cabinet  as  Chancellor  of  the  Duchy  of  Lancaster. He  was  appointed  to  the  Dardanelles  Commission   looking  into  the  Gallipoli  campaign  in  which  his  son  Harold  had  been  killed.

At  the  beginning  of  1918  Frederick  was  elevated  to  the  peerage   and  was  briefly  succeeded by  his  son  Oswald. Later  that  year  Oswald  became  the  third  of  his  four  sons  to  be  killed  in the  War. He  endowed  a  ward  at  Ancoats  Hospital  to  their  memory.

He  died  in  1937  aged  86.