Willoughby Hyett Dickinson, 1st Baron Dickinson,
KBE,
PC (9 April 1859 – 31 May 1943), was a British
Liberal Party politician. He was Member of Parliament for
St. Pancras North from 1906 to 1918. He was an influential proponent of establishing a
League of Nations after the
First World War.[1]
He served as vice-chairman of the recently formed
London County Council from 1892 to 1896 and then its chairman from March 1900 to March 1901.[6] From 1896 until 1918, he was chair of the London Liberal Federation.[7] He was an assiduous supporter of
women's suffrage, promoting a number of measures in Parliament to get the vote for women.[8][9][10][11] Dickinson was made a
Privy Counsellor in 1914. He did not stand for parliament again.[12] He was later secretary-general of the
World Alliance for International Friendship, and from 1931 chairman of its International Council.[13] In 1930, he joined the
Labour Party, but the following year he was part of the
National Labour Organisation split.[7]
^from March 1907 to the Representation of the People Bill of 1913. During
World War I the Speakers Conference on electoral reform included two influential Liberal suffragists,
Sir John Simon and W. H. Dickinson, who helped ensure that it recommended granting the vote to women.[1]
Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
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