He then purchased Crux Easton House, near Newbury, with Diana. Henry Williamson, the agricultural writer and ruralist, put the theories of "blood and soil" into practice, which, in effect, acted as a demonstration farm for Mosleys ideas for the BUF. Unbeknown to Mosley, MI5 and the Special Branch had deeply penetrated the BUF and were also monitoring him through listening devices. His Britain First rally at the Earls Court Exhibition Hall on 16 July 1939 was the biggest indoor political rally in British history, with a reported 30,000 attendees. Mosley appears in a list of names of Fabians from Fabian News and the Fabian Society Annual Report 192931. with Cynthia Mosley MP{ "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "Person", "name": "Cynthia Mosley MP", "gender": "Female" }, Alexander Mosley{ "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "Person", "name": "Alexander Mosley", "gender": "Male" }, born 1938, age 82 [1] He returned to the trenches before the injury had fully healed and at the Battle of Loos (1915) passed out at his post from pain. [19], Mosley was at this time falling out with the Conservatives over its Irish policy, and condemned the operations of the Black and Tans against civilians during the Irish War of Independence. Sir Oswald Ernald (Tom) "6th Baronet Mosley of Ancoats" Mosley Bt Born 16 Nov 1896 in St George Hanover Square, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom Ancestors Son of Oswald Mosley Bt and Katherine Maud (Edwards-Heathcote) Mosley Brother of Edward Heathcote Mosley and John Arthur Noel Mosley "[62] In the 1950s Mosley advocated for Africa to be divided into black and white areas,[63] Sitter in 21 portraits. They met in Kadda, where Gandhi was quick to invite him to a private conference in which Gandhi was chairman. Of his decision to leave, he said, "You don't clear up a dungheap from underneath it.". [1] Mosley was interrogated for 16 hours by Lord Birkett[53] but never formally charged with a crime, and was instead interned under Defence Regulation 18B. He led his campaign stridently on an anti-immigration platform, calling for forced repatriation of Caribbean immigrants as well as a prohibition upon mixed marriages. Thirty years later, in 1961, Richard Crossman described the memorandum: " this brilliant memorandum was a whole generation ahead of Labour thinking.". Father of Nicholas Moseley; Edward Moseley; William Moseley; Jane Moseley and Sir Oswald Moseley, 1st Bt. May 27 1871 - Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, h Elizabeth Mosley, Emily Mosley, Frances Leigh (born Mosley), Mary Anne Chetwynd (born Mosley), Tonman Mosley, and, Oswald Mosley, John Mosley, Elizabeth Mortley, Frances Gardiner (born Mosley), Elizabeth Frances Ashhurst (born Mosley), Mar 27 1785 - Rolleston on Dove, Staffordshire, England, May 24 1871 - Ancoats, Manchester, Lancashire, England, Sir Oswald Mosley, Elizabeth Mosley (born Tonman), John Mosley, Elizabeth Frances Ashurst (born Mosley), Frances Whalley-smythe-gardiner (born Mosley), Oswald Mosley, Sir Tonman Mosley, 3rd Bart. On 11 May 1920 he married Lady Cynthia Curzon (known as "Cimmie"), (18981933), second daughter of The 1st Earl Curzon of Kedleston, (18591925), Viceroy of India, 18991905, Foreign Secretary, 19191924, and Lord Curzon's first wife, the US mercantile heiress, the former Mary Victoria Leiter. In a senior aristocratic Georgian intermarriage, his father was a third cousin to the 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, father of Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, who served alongside King George VI as Queen (of the United Kingdom). Beginning in 1934, they were increasingly worried that Mosley's noted oratory skills would convince the public to provide financial support to the BUF, enabling it to challenge the political establishment. Mosley used the time in confinement to read extensively in classics, particularly regarding politics and war, with a focus upon key historical figures. ronet Of Ancoats, Caroline Feilden (rojena Mosley), Octavia Spooner (rojena Mosley), Frances Leigh (rojena Mosley), Mary Anne Chetwynd (r May 24 1871 - Rolleston Hall, near Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Historical Person Search Search Search Results Results Oswald MOSLEY (1588 - Unknown) Try FREE for 14 days Try FREE for 14 days How do we create a person's profile? London: I.B. He was 21 years of age and had not fully developed his own politics. Mosley was critical of Winston Churchills policy as Chancellor of the Exchequer. In Roy Carter's alternative history novel, Mosley was played by Jonathan McGuinness in the first series of the BBC. All relationship and family history information shown on FameChain has been compiled from data in the public domain. He died in his 67th year on 20 September 1798 and as his eldest son, Oswald Mosley of Rolleston and Bolesworth Castle, Cheshire had predeceased him he was succeeded by his grandson Oswald. [27] His period outside Parliament was used to develop a new economic policy for the ILP, which eventually became known as the Birmingham Proposals; they continued to form the basis of Mosley's economics until the end of his political career. After military service during the First World War, Mosley was one of the youngest members of parliament, representing Harrow from 1918 to 1924, first as a Conservative, then an independent, before joining the Labour Party. He soon distinguished himself as an orator and political player, one marked by extreme self-confidence, and made a point of speaking in the House of Commons without notes. [10] His father was a third cousin to the 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, father of the future Queen Mother. "[24] In October he attempted to persuade the Labour Party Conference to accept the Memorandum, but was defeated again. [11] During the First World War he was commissioned into the British cavalry unit the 16th The Queen's Lancers and fought in France on the Western Front. Leave a message for others who see this profile. [20] He was secretary of the Peace with Ireland Council. He argues that trying to "challenge the 50-year-old system of free trade exposes industry in the home market to the chaos of world conditions, such as price fluctuation, dumping, and the competition of sweated labour, which result in the lowering of wages and industrial decay. CONTENT MAY BE COPYRIGHTED BY WIKITREE COMMUNITY MEMBERS. Mosley was imprisoned in May 1940 and the BUF was banned. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. Nicholas Mosley (later 7th Baronet of Ancoats; born 1923), a successful novelist who wrote a biography of his father and edited his memoirs for publication Feminine Fascism: Women in Britain's Fascist Movement 1923-1945. Leslie Hore-Belisha, then a Liberal Party politician who later became a senior Conservative, recorded his impressions of Mosley as a platform orator at this time, claiming that his "dark, aquiline, flashing: tall, thin, assured; defiance in his eye, contempt in his forward chin". He was close to Ramsay MacDonald and hoped for one of the great offices of state, but when Labour won the 1929 general election he was appointed only to the post of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, a position without Portfolio and outside the Cabinet. The ILP elected him to Labour's National Executive Committee.[29]. Of Ancoats, Sir Oswald Mosley, 2nd Baronet of Ancoats, Oswald (2nd Baronet Mosley Of Ancoats)(Sir) Mosley, Sir Oswald Mosley, 2nd Bart. By 1924, he was growing increasingly attracted to the Labour Party, which had just formed a government, and in March he joined it. Sir Oswald Mosley, 5th Baronet Birth 29 Dec 1873 - Beaumaris, Anglesey, Wales Death 21 Sep 1928 - Rolleston Hall, Burton On Trent, Staffordshire, England Mother Elizabeth Constance White Mosley Father Sir Oswald Mosley, 4th Baronet Quick access Family tree 1096 New search Sir Oswald Mosley, 5th Baronet family tree John Gunther described Mosley in 1940 as "strikingly handsome. He is probably the best orator in England. [56], In November 1943, the Home Secretary, Herbert Morrison, ordered the release of the Mosleys. Husband of Sophia Anne Every. He returned to Parliament as Labour MP for Smethwick at a by-election in 1926, and served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in the Labour Government of 192931. Mosley's personal papers are held at the University of Birmingham's Special Collections Archive. Having built up a following in his constituency, he retained it against a Conservative challenge in the 1922 and 1923 general elections. He sought to discredit pictures taken in places like Buchenwald and Belsen. British aristocrat and fascist politician (18961980), For other people named Oswald Mosley, see. He spent the remainder of the war at desk jobs in the Ministry of Munitions and in the Foreign Office.[11]. He was Kingsway Hall lecturer in 1924 and Livingstone Hall lecturer in 1931. (1674 - 1751) Photos: 21. He was the youngest member of the House of Commons to take his seat, though Joseph Sweeney, an abstentionist Sinn Fin member, was younger. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. [66] Shortly after his failed election campaign, Mosley permanently moved to Orsay, outside Paris. Tom is 19 degrees from Jennifer Aniston, 15 degrees from Drew Barrymore, 17 degrees from Candice Bergen, 14 degrees from Alexandre Dumas, 18 degrees from Carrie Fisher, 31 degrees from Whitney Houston, 16 degrees from Hayley Mills, 18 degrees from Liza Minnelli, 15 degrees from Lisa Presley, 21 degrees from Kiefer Sutherland, 21 degrees from Bill Veeck and 21 degrees from Brian Nash on our single family tree. This may have contributed to his decision, in 1951, to leave Britain and live in Ireland. [14], Mosley met Mahatma Gandhi through C.F. WIKITREE PROTECTS MOST SENSITIVE INFORMATION BUT ONLY TO THE EXTENT STATED IN THE TERMS OF SERVICE AND PRIVACY POLICY. Skip Ancestry main menu . Mosley campaigned aggressively in Ladywood, and accused Chamberlain of being a "landlords' hireling". His personal magnetism is very great". Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Ba. 2nd Baron Resedale, Sydney, Lady Redesdale [4] He was considered a potential Labour Prime Minister but resigned because of discord with the government's unemployment policies. In November 1945, Mosley was summoned to court for allegedly causing unnecessary suffering to be caused to pigs by failing to provide adequate feeding and accommodation for them. Cynthia died of peritonitis in 1933, after which Mosley married his mistress Diana Guinness, ne Mitford (19102003). Husband of Sophia Anne Every Together, Oswald and Cynthia Mosley proved an alluring couple, and many members of the working class in Birmingham succumbed to their charm for, as the historian Martin Pugh described, "a link with powerful, wealthy and glamorous men and women appealed strongly to those who endured humdrum and deprived lives". 2nd Baron Resedale Sir Oswald Mosley's sister in law was Nancy Mitford Sir Oswald Mosley's sister in law was Pamela Mitford Sir Oswald Mosley's brother in law was Thomas Mitford Sir Oswald Mosley's sister in law was Unity Mitford Sir Oswald Mosley's sister in law was Jessica Mitford Sir Oswald Mosley's mother in law was Sydney, Lady Redesdale We encourage you to research and examine these records to . Sir Oswald Mosley's grandfather in law was, Sir Oswald Mosley's grandmother in law was, Sir Oswald Mosley's brother in law-by-marriage was, Sir Oswald Mosley's former father in law is, David Freeman-Mitford Just one grandparent can lead you to many son Major Edward Heathcote Mosley son John Arthur Noel Mosley son Sir Oswald Mosley, 4th Baronet father Elizabeth Constance White mother Constance Mosley sister Violet Mosley sister Geraldine Ellison of Willington . Sir Oswald Mosley, 6th Bt. On his release from prison he stayed with his sister-in-law Pamela Mitford, followed shortly by a stay at the Shaven Crown Hotel in Shipton-under-Wychwood. They married in secret in Nazi Germany on 6 October 1936 in the Berlin home of Germany's Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Joseph Goebbels. The party was frequently involved in violent confrontations, particularly with Communist and Jewish groups and especially in London. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. [14], Cynthia died of peritonitis in 1933, after which Mosley married his mistress Diana Guinness, ne Mitford (19102003). They spent these initial days in the government house of Ceylon, followed by Madras and then Calcutta, where the Governor at the time was Lord Lytton. 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In the London County Council elections in 1937 the BUF stood in three wards in East London (some former New Party seats), its strongest areas, polling up to a quarter of the vote and Mosley made most of the Blackshirt employees redundant, some of whom then defected from the party with William Joyce. Mosley and his wife Cynthia were committed Fabians in the 1920s and at the start of the 1930s. [57] He and his wife remained the subject of much press attention. [5] He is also known for the influence he had on the thinking of the founders of the Soil Association, a catalyst for the organic farming movement in Great Britain. However, it was rejected by the Cabinet, and in May 1930 Mosley resigned from his ministerial position. After Churchill returned Britain to the Gold Standard, Mosley claimed that "faced with the alternative of saying goodbye to the gold standard, and therefore to his own employment, and goodbye to other people's employment, Mr. Churchill characteristically selected the latter course". Sir Oswald Mosley, bart., DCL, of Rolleston Hall, was the last lord of the manor of Manchester. Mosley agreed to be present because he mistakenly believed that it was Lady Redesdale, Diana and Unity's mother, who was accompanying Unity. 10. As the New Party gradually became more radical and authoritarian, and as critics of the fascists in the Spanish Civil War emerged in the press, art and literature, many previous supporters defected from it. Largely because of his family background and war service, local Conservative and Labour associations preferred Mosley in several constituencies a vacancy near the family estates seemed to be the best prospect. (Oswald) Alexander Mosley (19382005); father of Louis Mosley (born 1983), Mosley appears more than once in the works of. (1896-1980), Founder of the British Union of Fascists and politician; MP for Harrow and Smethwick. He was determined to unite the existing fascist movements and created the British Union of Fascists (BUF) in 1932. He was Kingsway Hall lecturer in 1924 and Livingstone Hall lecturer in 1931. Reports suggest Prince Charles will live "in a flat above the shop" when he becomes king. Sir John Parker Mosley, created a baronet on 24 March 1781 was 4th and youngest son of Nicholas Mosley of Manchester, succeeeded to all the family estates. [61] He responded to criticism of him abandoning his supporters in a hostile Britain for a life abroad by saying, "You don't clear up a dungheap from underneath it. Mosley had two children with his second wife, Diana Mitford (19102003):[10], Oswald Mosley died on 3 December 1980 at Orsay. [25] The outraged Chamberlain demanded that Mosley retract the claim "as a gentleman". After Mosley's parents separated, he was raised by his mother, who went to live at Betton Hall near Market Drayton, and his paternal grandfather, Sir Oswald Mosley, 4th Baronet. Birth of Son, Oswald Ernald (Tom) MOSLEY 6th Bt . [48] At a large Mosley rally at Olympia on 7 June 1934, his bodyguards' violence caused bad publicity. He passed away on 2 JUN 1751 in St James,Bath,Somersetshire,England. 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Sydney Freeman-Mitford, Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke Of Devonshire. Mosley had found problems with disruption of New Party meetings, and instituted a corps of black-uniformed paramilitary stewards, nicknamed blackshirts. Its early parliamentary contests, in the 1931 Ashton-under-Lyne by-election and subsequent by-elections, arguably had a spoiler effect in splitting the left-wing vote and allowing Conservative candidates to win. Mosley appears in a list of names of Fabians from Fabian News and the Fabian Society Annual Report 192931. He transferred to the Royal Flying Corps as an observer, but while demonstrating in front of his mother and sister he crashed, which left him with a permanent limp, as well as a reputation for being brave and somewhat reckless. Research genealogy for Oswald Mosley of England, United Kingdom, as well as other members of the Mosley family, on Ancestry. My position was on the left and is now in the centre of politics. The BUF was proscribed later that year. with Cynthia Mosley MP{ "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "Person", "name": "Cynthia Mosley MP", "gender": "Female" }, Michael Mosley{ "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "Person", "name": "Michael Mosley", "gender": "Male" }, born 1932, age 89 The outraged Chamberlain demanded that Mosley retract the claim "as a gentleman". Lord Curzon had to be persuaded that Mosley was a suitable husband, as he suspected Mosley was largely motivated by social advancement in Conservative Party politics and Cynthia's inheritance. Violence, since called the Battle of Cable Street, resulted between protesters trying to block the march and police trying to force it through. Eventually he crossed the floor to sit as an Independent Member on the opposition side of the House of Commons. In late 1920, he crossed the floor to sit as an independent MP on the opposition side of the House of Commons. That is, until season five debuted, introducing Oswald Mosley, the latest villain for the Shelby family to face off against. He was close to Ramsay MacDonald and hoped for one of the Great Offices of State, but when Labour won the 1929 general election he was appointed only to the post of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, a position without Portfolio and outside the Cabinet. [75][76][77] Immediately following his release in 1943, Mosley lived with his second wife, Diana, at Crux Easton, Hampshire In 1945, he moved to Crowood Farm, located near Marlborough, Wiltshire, which he ran. Mosley's ancestral family residence, Rolleston Hall in Staffordshire, was demolished in 1928. His father-in-law's past as Viceroy of India allowed for the acquaintance of various personalities along the journey. The hearing lasted for five hours. As the European situation moved towards war, the BUF began to nominate Parliamentary by-election candidates and launched campaigns on the theme of Mind Britain's Business. Skip Ancestry main menu . Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet ( 16 November 1896 3 December 1980) was a British politician. Gottlieb, Julie V. (2000). [1] Mosley, who was suffering with phlebitis, spent the rest of the war confined under house arrest and police supervision. The hundreds of guests included European royalty such as King George V and Queen Mary; and The Duke of Brabant (later King Leopold III of the Belgians) and his wife, Astrid of Sweden, Duchess of Brabant. A scheme of national economic planning to achieve a right, or at least a better, balance of our industries between the old and the new, between agriculture and manufacture, between home development and foreign investment; and wide executive powers to carry out the details of such a scheme. She was born on September 12, 1929, and joined the Buckingham Palace Brownies unit, alongside Princess Margaret.. It claimed membership as high as 50,000, and had the Daily Mail and Daily Mirror among its earliest (though short-lived) supporters. [42] It claimed membership as high as 50,000, and had the Daily Mail and Daily Mirror among its earliest supporters. [49] At one of his New Party meetings in Leicester in April 1935, he said, "For the first time I openly and publicly challenge the Jewish interests of this country, commanding commerce, commanding the Press, commanding the cinema, dominating the City of London, killing industry with their sweat-shops. [67] He returned to politics one last time, contesting the 1966 general election at Shoreditch and Finsbury, and received 4.6% of the vote. [53] His agitation was officially tolerated until the events of the Battle of France in May 1940 made the government consider him too dangerous. Mary Anna Sibell Elizabeth Sturt, on 10 May 1975. In October he attempted to persuade the Labour Party Conference to accept the Memorandum, but was defeated again. with Cynthia Mosley MP{ "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "Person", "name": "Cynthia Mosley MP", "gender": "Female" }, Nicholas Mosley, 3rd Baron Ravensdale{ "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "Person", "name": "Nicholas Mosley, 3rd Baron Ravensdale", "gender": "Male" }, born 1923, age 97 He soon distinguished himself as an orator and political player, one marked by extreme self-confidence, and he made a point of speaking in the House of Commons without notes. They married in secret in Germany on 6 October 1936 in the Berlin home of Germany's Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Joseph Goebbels. Adolf Hitler was one of the guests.[1]. When the government fell in October, Mosley had to choose a new seat, as he believed that Harrow would not re-elect him as a Labour candidate. On his release from prison, he first stayed with his sister-in-law Pamela Mitford, followed shortly by a stay at the Shaven Crown Hotel in Shipton-under-Wychwood. Explore how the celebrity world connects. The New Party increasingly inclined to fascist policies, but Mosley was denied the opportunity to get his party established when during the Great Depression the 1931 General Election was suddenly called the party's candidates, including Mosley himself running in Stoke which had been held by his wife, lost the seats they held and won none. He was released in 1943 and, politically disgraced by his association with fascism, moved abroad in 1951, spending most of the remainder of his life in Paris and two residences in Ireland. Michael Mosley's great grandparents: Michael Mosley's great grandfather was Captain Justinian Edwards-Heathcote Michael Mosley's great grandmother is Eleanor Edwards-Heathcote Michael Mosley's great grandfather is Sir Oswald Mosley, 4th Baronet Michael Mosley's great grandmother is Elizabeth Mosley. He had three children by Cynthia: He lost his seat at Smethwick in 1931. We encourage you to research and examine these . Oswald lived in Staffordshire. From online or printed sources and from publicly accessible databases. I'd say old Mosely deserves inclusion into the Black Sheep category. He was given responsibility for solving the unemployment problem, but found that his radical proposals were blocked either by his superior James Henry Thomas or by the Cabinet. "[50] The party was unable to fight the 1935 general election. [64][need quotation to verify], Mosley was a key pioneer in the emergence of Holocaust denial. On 11 May 1920, he married Lady Cynthia "Cimmie" Curzon (18981933), second daughter of the 1st Earl Curzon of Kedleston (18591925), Viceroy of India 18991905, Foreign Secretary 19191924, and Lord Curzon's first wife, the U.S. mercantile heiress Mary Leiter. The hundreds of guests included King George V and Queen Mary, as well as foreign royalty such as the Duke and Duchess of Brabant (later King Leopold III and Queen Astrid of Belgium).[1][12]. Oswald Mosley was born on 17 March 1761. Mosley was at this time falling out with the Conservatives over Irish policy, objecting to the use of the Black and Tans to combat the IRA. They enjoyed each other's company for the short time they were together. beth Mosley, Frances Leigh (born Mosley), Tonman Mosley, John Mosley, Mary Anne Chetwynd (born Mosley), Penelope Mosley, Caroline Feilden Mar 27 1785 - Rolleston, Staffs., England, May 25 1871 - Burton Upon Trent, Staffordshire, England. Mosley remained popular as late as summer 1939. It also gained the endorsement of the Daily Mail newspaper, headed at the time by Harold Harmsworth (later created 1st Viscount Rothermere). He married Elizabeth Tonman, daughter of Reverend Thomas Tonman, on 3 February 1784. In January 1914, Mosley entered the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, but was expelled in June for a "riotous act of retaliation" against a fellow student. When the government fell in October, Mosley had to choose a new seat, as he believed that Harrow would not re-elect him as a Labour candidate. Mosley's final share of the vote was 8.1%. In 1961, he took part in a debate at University College London about Commonwealth immigration, seconded by a young David Irving. [15], Mosley spent large amounts of his private fortune on the British Union of Fascists (BUF) and tried to establish it on a firm financial footing by various means including an attempt to negotiate, through Diana, with Hitler for permission to broadcast commercial radio to Britain from Germany. 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