John Bradbury, 1st Baron Bradbury

[2] In the 1925 New Year Honours, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Bradbury, of Winsford in the County of Chester.

He died in May 1950, aged 77, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son John.

The Bradbury pound was introduced in 1914 at the outbreak of the First World War.

The Government at the time needed to preserve its stock of bullion so asked the Bank of England to cease paying out gold for its notes.

Instead the Treasury printed and issued 10 shilling and £1 notes (so called Bradbury pounds).