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James Hozier, 2nd Baron Newlands

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James Hozier
In The Sketch, 15 August 1900
Member of Parliament
In office
1886–1906
ConstituencySouth Lanarkshire
Personal details
Born(1851-04-04)4 April 1851
Lanarkshire, Scotland
Died5 September 1929(1929-09-05) (aged 78)
Brighton, England
Political partyConservative
Spouse
Lady Mary Louisa Wellesley Cecil
(m. 1880)
Education
OccupationCivil servant, diplomat, politician
"Jim"
Lord Newlands as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, May 1909

James Henry Cecil Hozier, 2nd Baron Newlands (4 April 1851 – 5 September 1929) was a Scottish civil servant, diplomat and politician.[1]

Biography

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Hozier was born in Lanarkshire on 4 April 1851, the son of William Hozier, 1st Baron Newlands.[2]

He was educated at Eton College and at Balliol College, Oxford.[2] In 1880, he married Lady Mary Louisa Wellesley Cecil, a daughter of the 3rd Marquess of Exeter.

He served as a Third Secretary in the Diplomatic Service from 1876, as Diplomatic Secretary at the Constantinople Conference, 1876–1877, and as Private Secretary to the Marquess of Salisbury while he was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1878 to 1880 and again as Prime Minister from 1885 to 1886.

He then entered Parliament and sat as Conservative Member of Parliament for South Lanarkshire from 1886 to 1906. He was Grand Master Mason of Scotland from 1899 to 1903 and was Brigadier of the Royal Company of Archers from 1910. He received the Freedom of the City of Glasgow in 1917.[2]

He died without issue in Brighton on 5 September 1929, and his title became extinct.[2]

Footnotes

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  1. ^ James Henry Cecil Hozier Newlands (2d Baron). The Right Honourable James Hozier, Second Baron Newlands to the Master & Scholars of Balliol College in the University of Oxford: Deed of Trust of the Jowett Fellowships Fund. Harrison & Sons, Printers, 1907.
  2. ^ a b c d "Obituary: Lord Newlands". The Guardian. London. 6 September 1929. p. 15. Retrieved 12 November 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for South Lanarkshire
18861906
Succeeded by
Honorary titles
Preceded by Lord Lieutenant of Lanarkshire
1915–1921
Succeeded by
Masonic offices
Preceded by Grand Master of the
Grand Lodge of Scotland

1900–1904
Succeeded by
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Baron Newlands
1906–1929
Extinct