Hubert Houldsworth

Sir Hubert Stanley Houldsworth, 1st Baronet, QC (20 April 1889 – 1 February 1956) was a barrister, Chairman of the National Coal Board and a British Liberal Party politician.

Houldsworth was the son of Albert Edward Houldsworth and Susannah Buckley. He was educated at Heckmondwike Grammar School and the University of Leeds, where in 1911 he received a Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours in Physics and in 1912 a Master of Science. In 1925 he was awarded a Doctor of Science. In 1919 he married Hilda Frances Clegg of Cleckheaton, Yorkshire. They had one son, Harold Basil. In 1944 he received a Knighthood. In 1951 he received an honorary LLD from Leeds University. In 1956 he was awarded a Baronetcy in the 1956 New Year Honours.

Houldsworth was Assistant Lecturer in the University of Leeds from 1919–26. In 1926 he received a Call to Bar by Lincoln’s Inn. He was Independent Chairman of the District Co-ordinating Committee of the Midland (Amalgamated) District (Coal Mines) Scheme 1930, from September 1936 to July 1942. In 1937 he became a Kings Counsel. He was Joint Coal Supplies Officer for the Midland Area (Mines Department) from September 1939 – July 1942. He was Fuel and Power Controller (North-Eastern Region), Board of Trade, November 1941 – July 1942. He was Regional Controller (South and West Yorkshire), Ministry of Fuel and Power from 1942–44. In 1943 he became a Bencher. He was Controller-General from 1944–45. He was Chairman of the East Midlands Division of the National Coal Board from 1946–51. He was Recorder of Doncaster from 1946–48. In 1951 he was appointed Chairman of the National Coal Board.

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