[1] He returned to the trenches before the injury had fully healed and at the Battle of Loos (1915) passed out at his post from pain. He was a member of parliament and later founded and led the British Union of Fascists (BUF).[1][2][3]. The Mosleys were released in November 1943, when Mosley was suffering with phlebitis, and spent the rest of the war under house arrest. His ashes were scattered on the pond at Orsay. Realising the economic uncertainty that was facing the nation because of the death of its domestic industry, Mosley put forward a scheme in the "Mosley Memorandum" that called for high tariffs to protect British industries from international finance and transform the British Empire into an autarkic trading bloc, for state nationalisation of main industries, for higher school-leaving ages and pensions to reduce the labour surplus, and for a programme of public works to solve interwar poverty and unemployment. He soon distinguished himself as an orator and political player, one marked by extreme self-confidence, and made a point of speaking in the House of Commons without notes. Oswald lived in Staffordshire. [13] He succeeded to the Baronetcy of Ancoats upon his father's death in 1928. If so, login to add it. Mosley led his campaign stridently on an anti-immigration platform, calling for forced repatriation of Caribbean immigrants as well as a prohibition upon mixed marriages. Mosley, whom Stanley Baldwin described as "a cad and a wrong 'un", refused to retract the allegation. 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After this, Mosley retired and moved back to France, where he wrote his autobiography, My Life (1968). Mosley remained popular as late as summer 1939. Sir Oswald Mosley's grandfather in law was, Sir Oswald Mosley's grandmother in law was, Sir Oswald Mosley's brother in law-by-marriage was, Sir Oswald Mosley's former father in law is, David Freeman-Mitford In the general election of 1918 he faced no serious opposition and was elected easily. Thirty years later, in 1961, Richard Crossman described the memorandum: " this brilliant memorandum was a whole generation ahead of Labour thinking.". Mosley later called Gandhi a "sympathetic personality of subtle intelligence". It took several recounts before Chamberlain was declared the winner by 77 votes and Mosley blamed poor weather for the result. During this latter period he was an advocate of Pro-Europeanism. [8][9] He was the eldest of the three sons of Sir Oswald Mosley, 5th Baronet (18731928), and Katharine Maud Edwards-Heathcote (18741950), daughter of Captain Justinian H. Edwards-Heathcote of Apedale Hall, Staffordshire. Explore how the celebrity world connects. Reports suggest Prince Charles will live "in a flat above the shop" when he becomes king. He married Elizabeth Tonman, daughter of Reverend Thomas Tonman, on 3 February 1784. Oswald Mosley, Elizabeth Mosley (born Tonman). The Mosley Memorandum won the support of the economist John Maynard Keynes, who stated that "it was a very able document and illuminating". Enter a grandparent's name. Shortly after the 1931 election, Mosley was described by the Manchester Guardian: When Sir Oswald Mosley sat down after his Free Trade Hall speech in Manchester and the audience, stirred as an audience rarely is, rose and swept a storm of applause towards the platform who could doubt that here was one of those root-and-branch men who have been thrown up from time to time in the religious, political and business story of England. Andrews, a clergyman and an intimate friend of the "Indian Saint", as Mosley described him. [28], In 1926, the Labour-held seat of Smethwick fell vacant, and Mosley returned to Parliament after winning the resulting by-election on 21 December. [72] She died in 1933 at 34 after an operation for peritonitis following acute appendicitis, in London. During this marriage, he began an extended affair with his wife's younger sister, Lady Alexandra Metcalfe, and a separate affair with their stepmother, Grace Curzon, Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston, the American-born second wife and widow of Lord Curzon of Kedleston. The Union Movement's meetings were often physically disrupted, as Mosley's meetings had been before the war, and largely by the same opponents. The party was frequently involved in violent confrontations and riots, particularly with communist and Jewish groups and especially in London. [61] He responded to criticism of him abandoning his supporters in a hostile Britain for a life abroad by saying, "You don't clear up a dungheap from underneath it. The New Party increasingly inclined to fascist policies, but Mosley was denied the opportunity to get his party established when during the Great Depression the 1931 General Election was suddenly called the party's candidates, including Mosley himself running in Stoke which had been held by his wife, lost the seats they held and won none. In 1968 he remarked in a letter to The Times, "I am not, and never have been, a man of the right. He spent the remainder of the war at desk jobs in the Ministry of Munitions and in the Foreign Office.[11]. Oswald Mosley was born on 17 March 1761. The BUF was protectionist, strongly anti-communist, and nationalistic to the point of advocating authoritarianism. In Roy Carter's alternative history novel, Mosley was played by Jonathan McGuinness in the first series of the BBC. He succeeded to the Baronetcy of Ancoats upon his father's death in 1928, which entitles the current holder to the prefix style Sir. Among Mosley's supporters at this time were the novelist Henry Williamson, military theorist J. F. C. Fuller and the future "Lord Haw Haw", William Joyce. Lady Eve Balfour, a founder of the Soil Association, supported Mosley's proposals to abolish Church of England tithes on agricultural land (Mosley's blackshirts "protected" a number of East Anglian farms in the 1930s from the bailiffs authorised to extract payments to the Church). As the New Party gradually became more radical and authoritarian, and as critics of the fascists in the Spanish Civil War emerged in the press, art and literature, many previous supporters defected from it. Mosley was imprisoned in May 1940 and the BUF was banned. Sir Oswald Mosley, the leader of the Blackshirts in Britain in the 1930s was from the Staffordshire and Lancashire Mosley family. As the European situation moved towards war, the BUF began to nominate Parliamentary by-election candidates and launched campaigns on the theme of Mind Britain's Business. Death: May 24, 1871 (86) Immediate Family: Son of Oswald Mosley and Elizabeth Mosley. He also claimed that the Holocaust was to be blamed on the Jews and that Adolf Hitler knew nothing about it. Shortly after the 1931 election, Mosley was described by The Manchester Guardian: When Sir Oswald Mosley sat down after his Free Trade Hall speech in Manchester and the audience, stirred as an audience rarely is, rose and swept a storm of applause towards the platform who could doubt that here was one of those root-and-branch men who have been thrown up from time to time in the religious, political and business story of England. US based Meghan and Harry.. FameChain has their amazing trees. "[24] In October he attempted to persuade the Labour Party Conference to accept the Memorandum, but was defeated again. Mosley, Sarah Elizabeth Mosley, Frances Mosley, Mary Anne Chetwynd (born Mosley), Tonman Mosley, John Mosley, Penelope Mosley, Caroline Mar 27 1785 - Rolleston Hall, near Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire. He had three children by Cynthia: He was determined to unite the existing fascist movements and created the British Union of Fascists (BUF) in 1932. Having built up a following in his constituency, he retained it against a Conservative challenge in the 1922 and 1923 general elections. ronet Of Ancoats, Caroline Feilden (rojena Mosley), Octavia Spooner (rojena Mosley), Frances Leigh (rojena Mosley), Mary Anne Chetwynd (r May 24 1871 - Rolleston Hall, near Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire. [20] He was secretary of the Peace with Ireland Council. #7217, Oswald MOSLEY . Beginning in 1934, they were increasingly worried that Mosley's noted oratory skills would convince the public to provide financial support to the BUF, enabling it to challenge the political establishment. 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He and his wife were the subject of much media attention. Death: 1726 (82-91) Immediate Family: Son of Nicholas Mosley of Ancoats, J.P and Jane Lever. The Liberal Westminster Gazette wrote that Mosley was: the most polished literary speaker in the Commons, words flow from him in graceful epigrammatic phrases that have a sting in them for the government and the Conservatives.