Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald Succeeded by Oliver Stanley Nationality British Role British Politician Political party National Liberal Party | Preceded by Herbert Morrison Succeeded by Stanley Holmes Name John Pybus Died October 23, 1935 | |
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Preceded by Sir Frederick Gill Rice | ||
Sir Percy John Pybus, 1st Baronet (25 January 1880 – 23 October 1935) was a British Liberal Party politician.
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Business career
Having completed an engineering apprenticeship John Pybus joined electrical engineers Phoenix Dynamo Manufacturing Company when aged 26. During World War I he was appointed managing director. Phoenix became a major constituent of the amalgamation of businesses named English Electric in 1918 and Pybus became a joint managing director with two others. He was appointed managing director of English Electric in March 1921 and chairman in April 1926. He was a member of many boards of directors including The Times newspaper and chairman of others including Phoenix Assurance.
In October 1928 he was selected as Liberal candidate for the Harwich Division. He remained a director of English Electric.
Parliament
He was first elected at the May 1929 general election, as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Harwich in Essex.
In 1931, when Labour Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald split his party and formed a National Government, He was one the Liberal MPs who left their party to form the breakaway National Liberal Party and join the government. Re-elected in Harwich at the 1931 general election, Pybus served as Minister of Transport from 1931 until 1933.
Honours
Created C.B.E. in 1917 he was made a baronet, of Harwich in the County of Essex, in January 1934, and died on 23 October 1935, just weeks before the 1935 general election. His title became extinct on his death.