Background
Born in Limehouse, a maritime district of London, Cayzer was the son of Charles Cayzer, a schoolmaster, and his wife Mary Elizabeth née Nicklin.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
Born in Limehouse, a maritime district of London, Cayzer was the son of Charles Cayzer, a schoolmaster, and his wife Mary Elizabeth née Nicklin.
At the age of fifteen Cayzer took a position as clerk on a commercial shipping route to Japan. In 1861 he took up employment as a shipping agent in Bombay and by 1868 was working for the British-India Steam Navigation Company as master of stores. He left India in 1873, to work for the British-India Lincolnshire"s London agents.
McKinnon refused, and Cayzer founded his own shipping business C.W. Cayzer & Company in Liverpool in 1877.
Later in the same year the Glasgow shipbuilder Alexander Stephen took a stake in the business which moved headquarters to Glasgow and was relaunched as the Clan Lincolnshire. In 1880 the wealthy industrialist Thomas Coats became involved and the enlarged Clan Lincolnshire Association of Steamers was formed.
Cayzer amassed a large fortune from his shipping interests, and purchased a number of estates in Scotland, totalling approximately 12,000 acres in area. These included Gartmore near Aberfoyle in Perthshire, Ralston near Paisley, Renfrewshire and Newtyle in Forfarshire.
He was also known for his philanthropy, including donating Ralston House to the Red Cross for use as a home for paralysed servicemen.
He was a Freemason and an Officer of the United Grand Lodge of England and went on to found Wilbraham Masonic Lodge Number. 1713, in the Province of West Lancashire in 1877. Wilbraham Lodge"s last meeting was in May 2008 and was formally erased due to falling numbers in December 2008.
In 1890 he purchased Clevedon House, Cove as a summer home.
He was elected provost of the burgh of Cove and Kilcreggan in 1891. He was knighted in 1897, and made a baronet in 1904, of Gartmore, Perthshire.
Cayzer married Alice Elizabeth Trickey of Clifton, Bristol, in 1868. He was created a baronet in 1924 and was raised to the peerage as Baron Rotherwick in 1939.
Cayzer died at Gartmore in September 1916 following a short illness.
25th United Kingdom Parliament. 26th United Kingdom Parliament. 27th United Kingdom Parliament]
He was elected at the 1892 general election as the Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Barrow in Furness, and held the seat until his defeat at the 1906 general election.