Background
His parents were Lieutenant Colonel Bolton James Alfred Monsell, a soldier and a Chief Constable in the Metropolitan Police, and Mary Beverley, daughter of Sir Edmund Ogle, 6th Baronet.
His parents were Lieutenant Colonel Bolton James Alfred Monsell, a soldier and a Chief Constable in the Metropolitan Police, and Mary Beverley, daughter of Sir Edmund Ogle, 6th Baronet.
In June 1902 he was posted to the newly completed torpedo boat destroyer HMS Success, serving in the Portsmouth instructional flotilla.
Eyres-Monsell served in the Royal Navy, and was promoted Sub-lieutenant on 15 July 1900. He was Civil Lord of the Admiralty from April 1921 to October 1922. Then Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty until May 1923, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury from July 1923 to January 1924, and again from November 1924 to June 1929 and from September 1931 to November 1931.
He became First Lord of the Admiralty in 1931, retaining his office in government until 1936.
He was created GBE in 1929 and Viscount Monsell in 1935. Joan Eyres-Monsell (1912–2003), was married for the second time in 1968 to Patrick Leigh Fermor, the traveller and author
Lord Monsell"s nephew was the British arctic explorer Henry George Watkins (1907–1932). A suburb of Leicester is named Eyres Monsell after him.
The council estate was built on land he had owned before it was compulsorily purchased in the early 1950s.
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He was elected as Member of Parliament for the Evesham Division of Worcestershire in January 1910 general election, and served until 1935.