Richard Denman

The Honourable Sir Richard Douglas Denman, 1st Baronet (24 August 1876 – 22 December 1957), was a radical British Liberal Party politician and Labour Party then National Labour MP.

In December 1905 he was appointed as Private Secretary to Sydney Buxton the Postmaster General.

Denman was elected to the House of Commons for Carlisle as a Liberal in January 1910.

[2] In 1914 when war broke out he joined the Union of Democratic Control, a pressure group of Liberal and Labour politicians who were critical of the Government's war policies.

In 1917 he was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Sir Herbert Fisher the President of the Board of Education and to Rowland Prothero the President of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries in the Coalition government of Lloyd George.