Edward Cadogan (politician)

Sir Edward Cecil George Cadogan, KBE, CB (15 November 1880 – 13 September 1962) was a British, Conservative politician.

Cadogan was a younger son of the 5th Earl Cadogan and his wife, Beatrix, a daughter of the 2nd Earl Craven. He was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford before training as a barrister.

From 1911 to 1921, he was Secretary to the Speaker of the House of Commons, James Lowther and also fought in World War I as a Major in the Suffolk Yeomanry. Lowther retired in 1921 and Cadogan was awarded the CB that year. A year later, he entered the Commons as Member of Parliament (MP) for Reading in 1922. He subsequently represented the seats of Finchley and Bolton and was a member of the Indian Statutory Commission from 1927 to 1930.

Cadogan was interested in penal reform, and particularly in the problems of young offenders. He chaired a committee which unanimously recommended abolishing the sentence of whipping (except in prisons), a provision adopted by Home Secretary James Chuter Ede in the Criminal Justice Act 1948. He was knighted in 1939 and fought with the RAF during World War II. He died unmarried and childless in 1962.

References

External links

• Works by or about Edward Cadogan at Internet Archive
• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Edward Cadogan

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Leslie Wilson	Member of Parliament for Reading 1922–1923	Succeeded by Somerville Hastings
Preceded by Thomas Robertson	Member of Parliament for Finchley 1924–1935	Succeeded by Sir John Crowder
Preceded by Sir John Haslam and Sir Cyril Entwistle	Member of Parliament for Bolton 1940–1945 With: Sir Cyril Entwistle	Succeeded by John Jones and John Lewis