Harold Woolley, Baron Woolley, CBE (6 February 1905 – 31 July 1986) was a British farmer and life peer who served as the President of the National Farmers' Union between 1960 and 1966.[1]
Life and career
editWoolley was the son of William Woolley, JP and Eleanor Woolley, and was educated at the Woodhouse Grove School. A leading Cheshire farmer, he was elected as the Cheshire delegate to the National Farmers' Union in 1943, before chairing the NFU Parliamentary Committee between 1947 and 1957.[2] He then served as the NUS' vice president and deputy president on several occasions, before serving as its president between 1960 and 1966.[2]
Woolley was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1958 Birthday Honours[3] and was made a Knight Bachelor in 1964 Birthday Honours "for services to farming".[4][5] On 18 January 1967, Woolley was created a life peer as Baron Woolley, of Hatton in the County Palatine of Chester.[6] In the House of Lords he sat as a crossbencher.[7] He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Cheshire in 1969.
Family
editWoolley married Martha Annie Jeffs, with whom he had four sons, in 1926; she died in 1936. He then married Hazel Eileen Archer Jones, with whom he had two daughters, in 1937. Lady Woolley died in 1975.[2]
References
edit- ^ National Farmers' Union. "100 Years of the NFU: Key events and legislation 1908-2008". Retrieved 13 June 2016.
- ^ a b c "Woolley". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 13 June 2016. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "No. 41404". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 June 1958. p. 3523.
- ^ "No. 43343". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 June 1964. p. 4938.
- ^ "No. 43390". The London Gazette. 24 July 1964. p. 6313.
- ^ "No. 44229". The London Gazette. 19 January 1967. p. 671.
- ^ "Lord Woolley". UK Parliament. Retrieved 13 June 2016.