Monday, 4 June 2018
1929 Henry Gregory
Constituency : Derbyshire South 1918-22
Henry took over from Herbert Raphael at South Derbyshire. He received the coupon and had a straight fight with Labour.
Henry was a solicitor's son from Bath. He was educated at Bristol Grammar School. He first joined his father's firm then switched to being a barrister. He became Recorder of Bath in 1916. That same year he got Roger Casement's co-defendant, Daniel Bailey, acquitted.
Henry stood down in 1922.
Lord Haldane was intending to make Henry a High Court judge but the government fell first. He received a number of lesser appointments and became Recorder of London in 1934.
He chaired the Royal Commission on Unemployment Insurance in 1930 which recommended the reductions in unemployment insurance that brought down the second Labour government. A civil servant described him as "a washout" who wasn't able to grasp ecenomics.He also chaired committees or inquiries into workmen's compensation, naval pensions, Basque refugees and industrial disputes.
Henry was knighted in 1935.
Henry retired in 1937.
He died in 1947 aged 82.
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