Biography of Henry Page Croft 1st Baron Croft 1881-1947

Before 22 Jun 1881 [his father] Richard Benyon Croft (age 38) and [his mother] Anne Elizabeth Page (age 38) were married.

On 22 Jun 1881 Henry Page Croft 1st Baron Croft was born to Richard Benyon Croft (age 38) and Anne Elizabeth Page (age 38) at Fanhams Hall.

In 1912 [his father] Richard Benyon Croft (age 69) died.

In before 1916 Henry Page Croft 1st Baron Croft (age 34) and Nancy Beatrice Borwick Baroness Croft (age 31) were married.

On 20 Aug 1916 [his son] Michael Henry Croft 2nd Baron Croft was born to Henry Page Croft 1st Baron Croft (age 35) and [his wife] Nancy Beatrice Borwick Baroness Croft (age 31).

In 1921 [his mother] Anne Elizabeth Page (age 78) died.

1924. Philip de László (age 54). Portrait of Henry Page Croft 1st Baron Croft (age 42).

                    The London Gazette 32906. Central Chancery Of The Orders Of Knighthood. St. James's Palace; S.W.1, 8th February, 1924
                
                    The King has been, graciously pleased to signify His Majesty's intention of conferring a Peerage of the United Kingdom on the following: 
                
                    To be Baron.
                
                    Sir John George Butcher, Bart., K.C., J.P., Member of Parliament for the City of York, 1892-1906, 1910-23. Served on many Select and other Committees of the House of Commons. 
                
                    Pricy Councellors.
                
                    The KING has been graciously pleased to declare that the following shall be sworn of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council:
                
                    Sir James Tynte Agg-Gardner, M'.P., Member of Parliament for Cheltenham 1874-80, 1885-95, 1900-06, and since April, 1911. Chairman of House of Commons Kitchen Committee.
                
                    Lieutenant-Colonel Wilfrid William Ashley, J.P., D.L., M.P., Member of Parliament since 1906, for Blackpool 1906-18, for Fylde 1918-22, for New Forest and Christchurch since November, 1922. Unionist Whip 1911-13. Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Transport, 1922-23. Under Secretary of State for War, 1923 to January, 1924.
                
                    Captain the Honourable Edward Algernon Fitzroy, J.P., D.L., M.P., Member of Parlia ment for South Northamptonshire, now the Daventry Division.;-1900-06 and since 1910. Deputy Chairman of .Committees,, House of Commons, 1922-23.
                
                    Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable Walter Edward Guinness, D.S.O., M.P., Member of Parliament for Bury St. Edmunds since August, 1907. Under Secretary of State for War, 1922-23. Financial Secretary to the Treasury, 1923 to January, 1924.
                
                    Sir Herbert Nield, K.C., J.P., D.L., M.P., Member of Parliament for Baling since 1906. Member of the Council of the National Unionist Association and Chairman, 1923-24. Chairman of the Association of Conservative Clubs. Recorder of York since 1917. Deputy Chairman, Middlesex Magistrates.
                
                    Baronets
                
                    The King has been graciously pleased to signify His Majesty's intention of conferring Baronetcies of the United Kingdom on the following:
                
                    William Henry Barber, Esq. For political services in Birmingham. A generbus benefactor to the University of Birmingham.
                
                    The Right Honourable Sir Clement Anderson Montague Barlow, K.B.E-., LL.D., Member of Parliament for South Salford, December, 1910-23. Minister of Labour, October. 1922 to January 1924. Parliamentary Secre tary to Ministry of Labour, April, 1920 to October, 1922. Senior .Government- Dele-, gate at the International Labour .Confer-, ences, Genoa, 1920 and'Geneva, 1921 and. 1922.
                
                    Major Harry Barnston, M.A., J.P., D.L., M.P., Member of Parliament for Eddisbury Division of Cheshire since 1910. Comptroller of His Majesty's Household, 1921 to January, 1924.
                
                    Sir Otto John Beit, K.C.M.G., LL.D. (Hon.). For services rendered to the Imperial College of Science and Technology at South Kensington.
                
                    Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Page Croft (age 42) C.M.G., T.D., J.P., D.L., M.P., Member of Parliament for Christchurch Division, January, 1910-18, for Bournemouth since 1918.                

                    Sir Herbert Hambling, J.P. For important services rendered to the Air Ministry on financial and commercial matters.'
                
                    Sir John Sutherland Harmood-Banner, J.P., D.L., M.P., Member of Parliament for Everton Division of Liverpool since 1905.
                
                    John Mackintosh MacLeod, Esq., LL.D., D.L., Member, of Parliament for Central Division of Glasgow, 1915-18, for Kelvingrove Division, 1918-22. Honorary Treasurer of the Western Divisional Council of the Scottish Unionist Association since 1893, and of Glasgow Conservative Club since 1895. Member of General Assembly Church of Scotland and of Committee on Union of Scottish Presbyterian Churches.
                
                    John Denton Marsden, Esq., J.P., For public and political services in Grimsby. Principal of the Consolidated Steam Fishing and Ice Cpmpany, Limited. A large supporter of charities in Great Grimsby and District.

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                    The London Gazette 32929. Whitehall, April 19, 1924.
                
                    Letters Patent have passed the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland granting the dignity of a Baronet of the said United Kingdom to the undermentioned gentlemen, and the heirs male of their respective bodies lawfully begotten:
                
                    Sir Otto John Beit, K.C.M.G.,of Tewin Water m the Parish of Tewin, in the County of Hertford.
                
                    Sir John Sutherland Harmood-Banner, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster Knight.
                
                    Sir Henry Herbert Hambling, of Yoxford, in the County of Suffolk, Knight
                
                    Brigadier-General Henry Page Croft (age 42), C.M.G., T.D., of Knole, in the Borough of Bournemouth and County of Southampton.                

                    William Henry Barber, of Culham Court in the Parish of Remenham and County of Berks, Esquire.
                
                    Major Harry Barnston, of Ghurton, in the County of Chester.
                
                    John Mackintosh MacLeod,LL.D.,of Fuinary, Morven, in the County of Argyll, Esquire.
                
                    John Denton Marsden, of Gxunsby, in the County of Lincoln, Esquire.

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The London Gazette 34862. Whitehall, May 31, 1940

The King has been pleased, by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm, bearing date the 28th instant, to confer the dignity of a Barony of the United Kingdom upon Brigadier-General Sir Henry Page Croft (age 58), Baronet, C.M.G., T.D., and the heirs male oi his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style and title of Baron Croft, of Bournemouth, in the County of Southampton. [Note [his wife] Nancy Beatrice Borwick Baroness Croft (age 55) by marriage Baroness Croft of Bournemouth in Hampshire.]

On 07 Dec 1947 Henry Page Croft 1st Baron Croft (age 66) died. His son [his son] Michael Henry Croft 2nd Baron Croft (age 31) succeeded 2nd Baron Croft of Bournemouth in Hampshire, 2nd Baronet Croft of Knole in Hampshire.

In 1949 [his former wife] Nancy Beatrice Borwick Baroness Croft (age 64) died.

Royal Ancestors of Henry Page Croft 1st Baron Croft 1881-1947

Ancestors of Henry Page Croft 1st Baron Croft 1881-1947