Frederick Cawley, 1st Baron Cawley PC, JP (9 October 1850 – 30 March 1937), known as Sir Frederick Cawley, Bt, between 1906 and 1918, was a British businessman and

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politician. A wealthy cotton merchant, he represented Prestwich in parliament between 1895 and 1918 and served as

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between 1916 and 1918. Created a

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in 1906, he was ennobled as

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in 1918.

Background and education

Cawley was born at Priestlands, Bunbury, Cheshire, the son of Thomas Cawley (1806–1875) by Harriet Bird, daughter of Samuel Bird, of Beeston Hall, Cheshire. He was educated at Aldersey School, Bunbury, and at

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Political career

Cawley was involved in the

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cotton industry, which made him a wealthy man. At the 1895 general election he was elected as

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for Prestwich, a seat he held until 1918. In 1916 he was admitted to the Privy Council and appointed

in the war-time coalition of

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, a post he held until 1918. He was also appointed to the

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. Cawley was created a Baronet, of Prestwich in the County Palatine of Lancaster, in 1906, and was raised to the peerage as Baron Cawley, of Prestwich in the County Palatine of Lancaster, in 1918. He was also a Justice of the Peace for

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Family

Lord Cawley married Elizabeth Smith, daughter of John Smith and Fanny Robson, in 1876. They had four sons, of whom the three youngest,

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MP, John and

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MP, were killed in the

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, and one daughter, Hilda Cawley. In memory of his three dead sons, Cawley endowed a ward at Ancoats Hospital, Manchester, in 1919 at a cost of £10,000. In 1901 Cawley acquired the estate of Berrington Hall near

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, which had previously been in the hands of the Rodney family. This was the family seat until 1957, when it was handed over to the government in lieu of death duties, and it is now in the care of the

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. Lady Cawley died in March 1930. Lord Cawley died at Berrington Hall in March, 1937, aged 86, and was succeeded in the baronetcy and barony by his eldest and only surviving son,

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Cawley War Memorial in Eye Church - geograph

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