| LC control no. | no2014151688 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Whitley, J. H. (John Henry), 1866-1935 |
| Variant(s) | Whitley, John Henry 1866-1935 |
| Birth date | 18660208 |
| Death date | 19350203 |
| Place of birth | Halifax (England) |
| Place of death | Halifax (England) |
| Affiliation | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons |
| Profession or occupation | Politicians |
| Found in | The industrial council plan in Great Britain: reprints of the report of the Whitley Committee on relations between employers and employed of the Ministry of Reconstruction and of related documents, 1919: page 11 (The Right Hon. J. H. Whitley, M. P., Chairman of Committees, House of Commons) Labour and capital after the war, 1918 title page (the Right Hon. J. H. Whitley, M. P.) Wikipedia, November 14, 2014 (John Henry Whitley; often known as J. H. Whitley, was a British politician; Whitley was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, on February 8, 1866; after an early education boarding at Wiseman's House, Clifton College, Whitley entered his uncle Samuel Whitley's cotton spinning business, S. Whitley & Co. at Hanson Lane Mills, Skircoat, Halifax; Whitley became Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Halifax in 1900, a seat he held until he resigned in 1928; he served as Junior Lord of the Treasury from 1907 to 1910 in the Liberal Government 1905-1915; he was appointed Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means 1910-1911, Privy Counsellor in 1911 and he held the role of Chairman of Ways and Means, Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons, from 1911-1921; during World War I, in 1917, Whitley was appointed to chair a committee to report on the relations of employers and employees in the wake of the establishment of the shop stewards movement and the widespread protest action against dilution; he proposed a system of regular formal consultative meetings between workers and employers, known to this day as Whitley Councils; Whitley was appointed Speaker of the House of Commons in 1921, a post he held until 1928, when he resigned due to ill health; post-Parliament, he chaired the Royal Commission on Labour in India, and was appointed Chairman of the Board of Governors of the BBC in 1930; in 1932, he made the first broadcast on the Empire Service, which developed into the World Service; he held the Chairmanship until his death on February 3. 1935 in Halifax, West Yorkshire) |
| Associated language | eng |
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