The family traces its roots to Ernald de Mosley of Bushbury, Staffordshire, in the time of King John in the 12th century. Two of the university's colleges - St Peter's and Lady Margaret. Mosley then made a bold bid for political advancement within the Labour Party. Mosley became Conservative MP for Harrow in 1918, but left the party over its Irish policy in 1920, standing as an independent candidate in 1922. He also claimed that the Holocaust was to be blamed on the Jews and that Adolf Hitler knew nothing about it. [41] He claimed that the UK Labour Party was pursuing policies of "international socialism", while fascism's aim was "national socialism". Oswald Mosley Birth 1583 - Bolesworth Castle, Cheshire, England Death November 9, 1630 - Ancoats, Manchester, Lancashire, England Mother Alice Webster Father Anthonie MOSLEY Quick access Family tree New search Oswald Mosley family tree Family tree Explore more family trees Parents Anthonie Mosley 1537 - 1607 Alice Webster 1539 - 1641 Spouse (s) [81] In the same decade, he bought and restored Clonfert Palace, also in Ireland.[82]. Tauris. Leslie Hore-Belisha, then a Liberal Party politician who later became a senior Conservative, recorded his impressions of Mosley as a platform orator at this time, claiming that his "dark, aquiline, flashing: tall, thin, assured; defiance in his eye, contempt in his forward chin". Born. Skip . When the government fell in October, Mosley had to choose a new seat, as he believed that Harrow would not re-elect him as a Labour candidate. He was Kingsway Hall lecturer in 1924 and Livingstone Hall lecturer in 1931. He had two younger brothers: Edward Heathcote Mosley (18991980) and John Arthur Noel Mosley (19011973).[10]. 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. His Britain First rally at the Earls Court Exhibition Hall on July 16th, 1939, 'was then, and remains now, the biggest indoor political rally ever held in Britain'. Daniel's 5th outing as Bond gets bums back on seats in the cinema. Oswald Alexander Mosley was born on 26 November 1938 He was the son of Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Bt. [13] He succeeded to the Baronetcy of Ancoats upon his father's death in 1928. Husband of Sophia Anne Every His ashes were scattered on the pond at Orsay. Born: 1873 : Died: 1928 : Father: Oswald H MOSLEY (1848 - 1915) Mother: Elizabeth Constance WHITE (1852 - 1938) Timeline. But how anyone professing and calling himself a socialist can keep away from the manifesto is a more obscure matter. Mosley appears in a list of names of Fabians from Fabian News and the Fabian Society Annual Report 192931. Within the family and among intimate friends, he was always called "Tom". IMPORTANT PRIVACY NOTICE & DISCLAIMER: YOU HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO USE CAUTION WHEN DISTRIBUTING PRIVATE INFORMATION. If not, see our friends at Ancestry DNA. of Ancoats, Dcl, Mp. In October 1936, Mosley and the BUF attempted to march through an area with a high proportion of Jewish residents. May 27 1871 - Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, h Elizabeth Mosley, Emily Mosley, Frances Leigh (born Mosley), Mary Anne Chetwynd (born Mosley), Tonman Mosley, and, Oswald Mosley, John Mosley, Elizabeth Mortley, Frances Gardiner (born Mosley), Elizabeth Frances Ashhurst (born Mosley), Mar 27 1785 - Rolleston on Dove, Staffordshire, England, May 24 1871 - Ancoats, Manchester, Lancashire, England, Sir Oswald Mosley, Elizabeth Mosley (born Tonman), John Mosley, Elizabeth Frances Ashurst (born Mosley), Frances Whalley-smythe-gardiner (born Mosley), Oswald Mosley, Sir Tonman Mosley, 3rd Bart. He lived for many years at Apedale Hall in Newcastle-under-Lyme, also in Staffordshire. 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. A Georgian style house, it was built in the 18th century and by 2011 was accompanied by 12 acres. "[50] The party was unable to fight the 1935 general election. His papers are housed at the University of Birmingham's Special Collections. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. 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. Despite this, the organisation gained support among many Labour and Conservative politicians who agreed with his corporatist economic policy, and among these were Aneurin Bevan and Harold Macmillan. He sought to discredit pictures taken in places like Buchenwald and Belsen. Throughout the book, Williamson makes references to regular meetings he had held with his "Leader" (Mosley) and a group of like-minded agrarian thinkers. It claimed membership as high as 50,000, and had the Daily Mail and Daily Mirror among its earliest (though short-lived) supporters. with Cynthia Mosley MP{ "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "Person", "name": "Cynthia Mosley MP", "gender": "Female" }, Alexander Mosley{ "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "Person", "name": "Alexander Mosley", "gender": "Male" }, born 1938, age 82 Right here at FameChain. step-child with Diana Mitford{ "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "Person", "name": "Diana Mitford", "gender": "Female" }, View Sir Oswald Mosley's Family Tree and History, Ancestry and Genealogy, Sir Oswald Mosley's father was Sir Oswald Mosley, 5th Baronet Sir Oswald Mosley's mother was Katherine Mosley, Sir Oswald Mosley's son was Max Mosley Sir Oswald Mosley's daughter was Vivien Mosley Sir Oswald Mosley's son is Nicholas Mosley, 3rd Baron Ravensdale Sir Oswald Mosley's son is Michael Mosley Sir Oswald Mosley's son is Alexander Mosley Sir Oswald Mosley's step-son is Jonathan Guinness, 3rd Baron Moyne Sir Oswald Mosley's step-son is Desmond Guinness, Sir Oswald Mosley's wife was Diana Mitford, Sir Oswald Mosley's former wife was Cynthia Mosley MP, Sir Oswald Mosley's brother was Major Edward Mosley Sir Oswald Mosley's brother was John Mosley, Sir Oswald Mosley's grandfather was Captain Justinian Edwards-Heathcote Sir Oswald Mosley's grandmother is Eleanor Edwards-Heathcote Sir Oswald Mosley's grandfather is Sir Oswald Mosley, 4th Baronet Sir Oswald Mosley's grandmother is Elizabeth Mosley, Sir Oswald Mosley's grandson was Alexander Mosley Sir Oswald Mosley's grandson is Patrick Mosley, Sir Oswald Mosley's father in law was David Freeman-Mitford Unbeknown to Mosley, MI5 and the Special Branch had deeply penetrated the BUF and were also monitoring him through listening devices. In 1948 he formed the Union Movement, which called for a single nation-state to cover the continent of Europe (known as Europe a Nation) and in 1962 attempted to launch a National Party of Europe to this end. But do note that it is not possible to be certain of a person's genealogy without a family's cooperation (and/or DNA testing). Having built up a following in his constituency, he retained it against a Conservative challenge in the 1922 and 1923 general elections. Oswald Mosley in MyHeritage family trees (Cole Web Site) view all Immediate Family Geraldine Ellison of Willington . Mosley then made a bold bid for political advancement within the Labour Party. Shortly after the 1958 Notting Hill race riots, Mosley briefly returned to Britain to stand in the 1959 general election at Kensington North. After Mosley's parents separated, he was raised by his mother, who went to live at Betton Hall near Market Drayton, and his paternal grandfather, Sir Oswald Mosley, 4th Baronet. However, he was unexpectedly selected for Harrow first. He then purchased Crux Easton House, near Newbury, with Diana. Mosley was a fencing champion in his school days; he won titles in both foil and sabre, and retained an enthusiasm for the sport throughout his life. Among his many travels, Mosley travelled to British India accompanied by Lady Cynthia in 1924. We encourage you to research and examine these records to . 2008 - 2023 INTERESTING.COM, INC. He was 21 years old. Mosley remained popular as late as summer 1939. Max Mosley (born 1940), who was president of the Fdration Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) for 16 years. 9. These great interests are not intimidating, and will not intimidate, the Fascist movement of the modern age. Andrews, a clergyman and an intimate friend of the "Indian Saint", as Mosley described him. We encourage you to research and examine these records to . On 11 May 1920 he married Lady Cynthia Curzon (known as "Cimmie"), (18981933), second daughter of The 1st Earl Curzon of Kedleston, (18591925), Viceroy of India, 18991905, Foreign Secretary, 19191924, and Lord Curzon's first wife, the US mercantile heiress, the former Mary Victoria Leiter. In October he attempted to persuade the Labour Party Conference to accept the Memorandum, but was defeated again. Historical Person Search Search Search Results Results Oswald MOSLEY (1588 - Unknown) Try FREE for 14 days Try FREE for 14 days How do we create a person's profile? First that gripping audience is arrested, then stirred and finally, as we have said, swept off its feet by a tornado of peroration yelled at the defiant high pitch of a tremendous voice. Adolf Hitler was their guest of honour. Its early parliamentary contests, in the 1931 Ashton-under-Lyne by-election and subsequent by-elections, arguably had a spoiler effect in splitting the left-wing vote and allowing Conservative candidates to win. Mosley published this memorandum because of his dissatisfaction with the laissez-faire attitudes held by both Labour and the Conservative party, and their passivity towards the ever-increasing globalisation of the world, and thus looked to a modern solution to fix a modern problem. In a senior aristocratic Georgian intermarriage, his father was a third cousin to the 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, father of Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, who served alongside King George VI as Queen (of the United Kingdom). Birth of Son, Oswald Ernald (Tom) MOSLEY 6th Bt . Most other active fascists in Britain met the same fate, resulting in the BUF's practical removal at an organised level from the United Kingdom's political stage. After service in the First World War, Mosley was a Member of Parliament for Harrow from 1918 to 1924, first as a Conservative, then an independent, before joining the Labour Party. He was educated at West Downs School and Winchester College. He succeeded to the Baronetcy of Ancoats upon his father's death in 1928, which entitles the current holder to the prefix style Sir. 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). [1] Mosley was interrogated for 16 hours by Lord Birkett[53] but never formally charged with a crime, and was instead interned under Defence Regulation 18B. On 23 May 1940 Mosley, who was then mostly focused on negotiated peace advocacy, was interned under Defence Regulation 18B along with most active fascists in Britain. Oswald Mosley. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each person's profile. Research genealogy for Oswald Mosley of England, United Kingdom, as well as other members of the Mosley family, on Ancestry.