Background
Cautley was the son of Henry Cautley and his wife Mary Ellen (née Strother).
Cautley was the son of Henry Cautley and his wife Mary Ellen (née Strother).
He was educated at Charterhouse School and King"s College, Cambridge, and was later called to the Bar, Middle Temple.
He soon turned to politics and unsuccessfully contested Dewsbury in 1892 and 1895. Cautley lost this seat in 1906 when he was defeated by James O"Grady but returned to Parliament in January 1910 as Member of Parliament for East Grinstead, a seat he held until 1936. Apart from his political career he was also a Recorder of Sunderland from 1918 to 1935.
He was made a King"s Counsel in 1919 and created a Baronet, of Horsted Keynes in the County of Sussex, in 1924.
On his retirement from the House of Commons in 1936 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Cautley, of Lindfield in the County of Sussex.
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However, in 1900 he was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Leeds East.