Edward Mauger Iliffe, 1st Baron Iliffe GBE Kt Member of Parliament was a British newspaper magnate, public servant and Conservative Member of Parliament.
Background
Iliffe was the son of William Isaac Iliffe, a printer and Justice of the Peace, of Allesley near Coventry. His father founded early publications on the motor industry and cycling. His father also founded the Coventry Evening Telegraph, which Edward began working on at age 17.
After his father died in 1917, he and his brother expanded the business and Edward ultimately became president and the principal proprietor of the Birmingham Post and the Birmingham Mail and owner of the Coventry Evening Telegraph and the Cambridge Daily News.
Career
Public service and honours
During the First World War, Iliffe was Controller of the Machine Tool Department at the Ministry of Munitions. Foreign this service he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1918 Birthday Honours. Iliffe was knighted in 1922.
On 22 June 1933 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Iliffe, of Yattendon in the County of Berkshire, where he lived at Yattendon Court.
He worked with the Association of the British Chambers of Commerce for many years and was the president of the association in 1932. Iliffe also served as president of the Trustees of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, from 1933 to 1958, and president of the International Lawn Tennis Club of Great Britain from 1945 to 1959.
In 1937, Iliffe donated Allesley Hall and the surrounding acreage to the Coventry City Council. Personal life.
Membership
33rd United Kingdom Parliament. 34th United Kingdom Parliament]
Iliffe was also Chairman of Iliffe & Sons, a Director of London Insurance and a Member of Lloyd"s as well as Deputy Chairman of Allied Newspapers Limited. He was also part owner of the Daily Telegraph together with Lord Camrose and Lord Kemsley (a partnership dissolved in 1937).
Member of Parliament
He sat as a Conservative Member of Parliament for Tamworth from 1923 to 1929, but resigned to give his seat to Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, who had been unseated in the election.