Background
Amwell was the son of John Montague and Mary Ann Manderson.
Amwell was the son of John Montague and Mary Ann Manderson.
He worked as a newsboy and as a shop assistant and later became a copywriter and political agent. After the war he was an Alderman of the Islington Council between 1919 and 1925. He did not serve in the National Government but held office in Winston Churchill"s war coalition as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport from 1940 to 1941 and to the Ministry of Aircraft Production from 1941 to 1942.
He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1946 and in 1947 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Amwell, of Islington in the County of London.
Lord Amwell married Constance Mary, daughter of James Craig, in 1911. Lady Amwell died in 1964.
Amwell survived her by two years and died in October 1966, aged 90.
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In 1923 Amwell was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Islington West, a seat he held until 1931 and again from 1935 to 1947, and served under Ramsay Macdonald as Under-Secretary of State for Air from 1927 to 1931.