Irving Albery

Sir Irving James Albery (12 May 1879 – 14 November 1967) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Gravesend from 1924 to 1945.

Sir Irving Albery
Member of Parliament for Gravesend
In office 29 October 1924 – 15 June 1945
Preceded by	George Isaacs
Succeeded by	Garry Allighan
Personal details
Born	Irving James Albery (1879-05-12)12 May 1879
Died	14 November 1967(1967-11-14) (aged 88)
Nationality	British
Political party	Conservative

Biography

The eldest of three sons of actress and theatrical manager Mary Moore (later Lady Wyndham) and actor James Albery^[1] Albery first stood for Parliament at the 1923 general election, when he unsuccessfully contested the Labour Party safe seat of Bow and Bromley in the East End of London. His youngest brother Wyndham went into politics and middle brother, Bronson, became a theatre manager.

At the 1929 general election, he was elected as MP for the Gravesend constituency in Kent, defeating the Labour MP George Isaacs, who had won the seat in 1923 with a majority only 119 votes.

Albery held the Gravesend seat for 21 years, until his own defeat at the 1945 general election by the Labour candidate Garry Allighan. Allighan was expelled from the House of Commons two years later, but Albery (by then 68 years old) did not contest the resulting by-election in November 1947, when Labour's Richard Acland held the seat with a reduced majority.

He was knighted in the King's Birthday Honours, 1936, for "political and public services".^[2]

He married Gertrude Mary Jones (1884–1967) and they had three children. Their eldest child and only daughter Jessica Albery was an architect and town planner, one of the first professional women architects in the UK in the early 20th century.^[3]

References

1. "Obituary: Lady Wyndham". The Times. 7 April 1931.
2. "No. 34296". The London Gazette (Supplement). 19 June 1936. p. 3996.
3. Walker, Lynne (11 July 2019), "Albery, Jessica Mary (1908–1990), architect and town planner", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.112259, retrieved 2 October 2021

• Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Irving Albery

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by George Isaacs	Member of Parliament for Gravesend 1924–1945	Succeeded by Garry Allighan