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Reginald Edward Manningham-Buller

Reginald Edward Manningham-Buller

Male 1905 - 1980  (74 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and 9 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Reginald Edward Manningham-Buller 
    Birth 1 Aug 1905 
    Gender Male 
    Death 1980 
    Siblings 1 Sibling 
    Person ID I268186  Geneagraphie
    Last Modified 21 Aug 2006 

    Father Lt. Col. Mervyn Edward Manningham-Buller,   b. 16 Jan 1876   d. 22 Aug 1956 (Age 80 years) 
    Mother Lilah Constance Cavendish,   b. 20 Mar 1884   d. 27 Apr 1944 (Age 60 years) 
    Marriage 8 Jul 1903  Latimer, Buckinghamshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F108483  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary Lilian Lindsay,   b. 27 Sep 1910   d. 2004 (Age 93 years) 
    Children 
    +1. Living
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     3. Living
    Family ID F108482  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 11 Aug 2001 

  • Notes 
    • 1st Viscount Dilhorne

      He was the only son of Sir Mervyn Edward Manningham-Buller, 3rd Baronet and MP (1876-1956), grandson of Sir Edward Manningham-Buller, 1st Baronet, of Dilhorne Hall, Staffordshire, a junior member of the Yarde-Buller family headed by Baron Churston . His uncle's seat of Dilhorne Hall having passed to an heiress ineligible for the baronetcy, Sir Mervyn made his home in Northamptonshire . Although locals now pronounce it "Dill-horn", Manningham-Buller preferred the previous pronunciation of "Dill-urn".
      Reginald Manningham-Buller, educated at Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford , was called to the Bar in 1927 and elected to the House of Commons in 1943 for Daventry . He was briefly a junior minister in the Government of Winston Churchill before it lost power in the elections of 1945 , and became a KC in 1947. In 1950 , his seat became South Northamptonshire. When Churchill regained power in 1951 Manningham-Buller was knighted and became Solicitor-General; in 1954 he was sworn of the Privy Council and became Attorney-General . In 1956 he succeeded his father as 4th Baronet. In the late 1950s, Bernard Levin gave him the nickname Bullying-Manners in his Parliamentary sketch.
      He continued as Attorney-General under Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan until July 1962, when he was rather abruptly named Lord Chancellor and sent to the House of Lords to replace Lord Kilmuir . Retained after Macmillan's retirement in the cabinet of Alec Douglas-Home , when the Conservatives lost the election of 1964 he was made Viscount Dilhorne and Deputy Leader of the Conservatives in the Lords.
      In 1969 , very unusually for a hereditary peer, he was named a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and continued in this capacity until his death.
      He and his wife, Lady Mary Lilian Lindsay (1910-2004), daughter of the 27th Earl of Crawford , had a son, who succeeded him in the title, and three daughters, the second daughter, Eliza , being the Director-General of MI5 since 2002 .



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