Oswald Mosley
British aristocrat and fascist politician (1896-1980) · United Kingdom · On the map · Politicians · Died at 84
Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet, was a British politician who rose to fame during the 1920s and 1930s when, disillusioned with mainstream politics, he turned to fascism. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Harrow from 1918 to 1924 and for Smethwick from 1926 to 1931.
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Lloyd George's coalition swept post-WWI Britain, extending the franchise to women over 30 and reshaping Westminster's electoral map amid imperial anxieties.
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4 more1918Named Member of the 31st Parliament of the United KingdomOffice14 December 1918 to 26 October 19221896Born16 November 1896People around Oswald
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Mosley in officer uniform
Oswald Mosley and Lady Cynthia Curzon on their wedding day, 11 May 1920
Portrait of Oswald Mosley by Glyn Philpot, 1925
Election pamphlet for Mosley's 1924 Birmingham Ladywood campaign against Neville Chamberlain
Oswald and Cynthia Mosley with working-class supporters in Birmingham, 1924
Mosley (right) swimming with Franklin D. Roosevelt (centre) and Maunsell Crosby (left) in Florida, February 1926
Mosley as a young minister in front of 10 Downing Street, c. 1929About this person
He founded the British Union of Fascists (BUF) in 1932 and led it until its forced disbandment in 1940.
