Edward Iliffe, 1st Baron Iliffe

Who was Edward Iliffe, 1st Baron Iliffe?

Edward Mauger Iliffe, 1st Baron Iliffe GBE, was a British newspaper magnate, public servant and Conservative Member of Parliament.

Iliffe was the son of William Isaac Iliffe, a publisher and Justice of the Peace, of Allesley near Coventry. He was President and the principal proprietor of the Birmingham Post and the Birmingham Mail and owner of the Coventry Evening Telegraph and the Cambridge Daily News. Iliffe was also Chairman of Iliffe & Sons, a Director of London Insurance and a Member of Lloyd's as well as Deputy Chairman of Allied Newspapers Ltd and part owner of the Daily Telegraph. During the First World War he was Controller of the Machine Tool Department at the Ministry of Munitions. He also sat as a Conservative Member of Parliament for Tamworth from 1923 to 1929. Appointed a CBE in 1918, and promoted to GBE in 1946. Iliffe was knighted in 1922. On 22 June 1933 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Iliffe, of Yattendon in the County of Berkshire, where he lived at Yattendon Court.

Lord Iliffe married Charlotte, daughter of Henry Gilding, in 1902. He died in July 1960, aged 83, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son Langton. Lady Iliffe died in 1972.