Sir John Pybus | |
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Minister of Transport | |
In office 3 September 1931 – 22 February 1933 | |
Prime Minister | Ramsay MacDonald |
Preceded by | Herbert Morrison |
Succeeded by | Oliver Stanley |
Member of Parliament for Harwich | |
In office 30 May 1929 – 23 October 1935 | |
Preceded by | Sir Frederick Gill Rice |
Succeeded by | Stanley Holmes |
Personal details | |
Born | 25 January 1880 |
Died | 23 October 1935 | (aged 55)
Nationality | British |
Political party | National Liberal |
Other political affiliations | Liberal |
Sir Percy John Pybus, 1st Baronet, CBE (25 January 1880 – 23 October 1935) was a British Liberal Party politician.
Having completed an engineering apprenticeship John Pybus joined electrical engineers Phoenix Dynamo Manufacturing Company when aged 26. During World War I he was appointed managing director. Phoenix became a major constituent of the amalgamation of businesses named English Electric in 1918 and Pybus became a joint managing director with two others. He was appointed managing director of English Electric in March 1921 [1] and chairman in April 1926. [2] He was a member of many boards of directors including The Times newspaper and chairman of others including Phoenix Assurance. [3]
In October 1928 he was selected as Liberal candidate for the Harwich Division. [4] He remained a director of English Electric.
Pybus was first elected at the May 1929 general election, as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Harwich in Essex. [3]
In 1931, when Labour Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald split the party and formed a National Government. Pybus was one of the Liberal MPs to receive a ministerial post but then left to help form the breakaway Liberal National Party. Re-elected in Harwich at the 1931 general election as a Liberal National, Pybus served as Minister of Transport from 1931 until 1933.
Created a Commander of the British Empire in 1917 he was made a baronet, of Harwich in the County of Essex, in January 1934, and died on 23 October 1935, just weeks before the 1935 general election. His title became extinct on his death. [3]