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Davison Alexander Dalziel, 1st Baron Dalziel of Wooler (17 October 1852 – 18 April 1928), known as Sir Davison Dalziel, Bt, between 1919 and 1928, was a British newspaper owner and Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons between 1910 and 1927, before a brief period in the House of Lords. He was the founder of Dalziel's News Agency.〔http://www.thepeerage.com/p23313.htm〕 ==Life== Dalziel was born in London, the son of Davison Octavian Dalziel and Helen Gaultier.〔(thepeerage.com Davison Alexander Dalziel, 1st and last Baron Dalziel of Wooler )〕 Dalziel moved to New South Wales to work as a journalist for the ''Sydney Echo''. He also spent several years in the United States in the management department of various newspapers, and when he returned to England in 1890 he set up his own business, Dalziel's News Agency. With partners he bought controlling stakes in the Standard and Evening Standard newspapers in 1910. He sold off his newspaper interests to further his work in the cab industry, setting up several companies including General Motor Cab Company Ltd, the Pullman Car Company and the International Sleeping Car Share Trust Ltd. At the January 1910 general election he was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Brixton, holding the seat until his defeat at the 1923 general election. He had been created a Baronet in 1919. He regained the Brixton seat in 1924,〔 and held it for a further three years until his resignation from the House of Commons on 9 June 1927, by taking the Chiltern Hundreds In 1927 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Dalziel of Wooler, of Wooler in the County of Northumberland. He is buried in the eastern section of Highgate Cemetery in north London, close to the main entrance. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Davison Dalziel, 1st Baron Dalziel of Wooler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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