Sydney Arnold, 1st Baron Arnold
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Sydney Arnold, 1st Baron Arnold (13 January 1878 – 3 August 1945) was a British Liberal Party politician who later joined the Labour Party and served as a government minister.
He as elected in 1912 as Member of Parliament for Holmfirth in what was then the West Riding of Yorkshire at a by-election following the resignation of the long-serving Liberal MP Henry Wilson. When that constituency was abolished for the 1918 general election, he was elected for the new Penistone constituency. He resigned that seat in 1921, and subsequently joined the Labour Party.
He was ennobled in 1924 as Baron Arnold, and served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies in Ramsay MacDonald's short-lived 1924 Labour Government, and as Paymaster-General from 1929 to 1931 in Ramsay MacDonald's second government.
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Henry Wilson |
Member of Parliament for Holmfirth 1912–1918 |
Succeeded by (constituency abolished) |
| Preceded by (new constituency) |
Member of Parliament for Penistone 1918–1921 |
Succeeded by William Gillis |
| Political offices | ||
| Preceded by William Ormsby-Gore |
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies 1924 |
Succeeded by William Ormsby-Gore |
| Preceded by The Earl of Onslow |
Paymaster-General 1929–1931 |
Succeeded by (office vacant), then Tudor Walters |
| Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
| Preceded by (new creation) |
Baron Arnold 1924–1945 |
Succeeded by (extinct) |
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