Henry Bucknall Betterton, 1st Baron Rushcliffe, Bt, GBE, PC (15 August1872–18 November1949) was a British Conservative politician. Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions, in decreasing order of seniority: Knight or Dame Grand... August 15 is the 227th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (228th in leap years), with 138 days remaining. ... 1872 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... November 18 is the 322nd day of the year (323rd in leap years), with 43 remaining. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday. ... The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the right-of-centre in the United Kingdom. ...
Betterton was a lawyer, practising for some years at the Chancery Bar. He was elected as Member of Parliament for Rushcliffe in Nottingham in 1918. He served as a junior minister at the Ministry of Labour in 1923 and again 1924-29. He served as Minister of Labour from 1931 until 1934. Court of Chancery, London, late 18th century The Court of Chancery was one of the courts of equity in England and Wales. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... Rushcliffe is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... ||:This article is about the English city. ... Minister of Labour re-directs here. ... 1931 (MCMXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Betterton was made a Baronet in 1929 and was raised to the peerage as Baron Rushcliffe in 1935, which title became extinct on his death in 1949. A baronet (traditional abbreviation Bart, modern abbreviation Bt) is the holder of a British title, known as a baronetcy. ... The Peerage is a system of titles of nobility which exists in the United Kingdom and is one part of the British honours system. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday. ...
Rushcliffe is split between an urbanised north-west, containing suburbs of Greater Nottingham, that have resisted incorporation into the city, and the south and east which is predominantly rural, and stretching to the Leicestershire border.
Betterton, Henry Bucknall, BaronRushcliffe 1872-1949, politician, was born at Woodville, Blackfordby, Leicestershire, 15 August1872, the son of Henry Inman Betterton, J.P., brewer, by his wife, Agnes, daughter of Samuel Bucknall.
He was called to the bar by the Inner Temple at the age of twenty-four and practised, not unsuccessfully, as a lawyer for twenty years.
In 1935 he was created BaronRushcliffe, of Blackfordby, in the county of Leicester, and in 1941 he was promoted G.B.E. Rushcliffe served on many committees and was chairman of the one which in 1943 determined an improved wage-scale for British nurses which became known as the Rushcliffe scale.
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