Willoughby Dickinson, 1st Baron Dickinson
Politician
1859 – 1943
Who was Willoughby Dickinson, 1st Baron Dickinson?
Willoughby Hyett Dickinson, 1st Baron Dickinson KBE, PC, was a British Liberal Party politician.
Dickinson was the son of Sebastian Stewart Dickinson, Member of Parliament for Stroud. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was Member of Parliament for St. Pancras North from 1906 to 1918 and was an assiduous supporter of women's suffrage, promoting a number of measures in Parliament to get the vote for women. Dickinson was made a Privy Counsellor in 1914 and in 1930 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Dickinson, of Painswick in the County of Gloucester.
He was later secretary-general of the World Alliance for International Friendship, and from 1931 chairman of its International Council.
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