Oswald Partington, 2nd Baron Doverdale

Oswald Partington, 2nd Baron Doverdale (4 May 1872 – 23 March 1935) was a Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom.

Career The second but oldest surviving son of mill-owner Edward Partington (who became the 1st Baron Doverdale), Oswald Partington was born in Bury. Educated at Rossall School, he held a commission in the 4th (Militia) Battalion of the Cheshire Regiment.

In March 1913 he was appointed an alderman on London County Council as a member of the Liberal-backed Progressive Party. He remained a member of the council until 1920.

He returned to the House of Commons in 1915 at an uncontested by-election for the Shipley constituency in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The vacancy occurred during the First World War, when the sitting MP, Percy Illingworth, died. Under an agreement between the parties vacant seats were to be uncontested for the duration of the conflict, with only a candidate of the party holding the seat being nominated. Partington stood down at the next general election in 1918. He succeeded his father in the peerage upon his death in 1925. The couple had one son and one daughter but were divorced in 1934. In 1934 he married an American widow, Leslie Tailer née Cornell, daughter of George B Cornell, of New York.

Children: Edward Alexander Partington (1904–1949), who succeeded as Baron Doverdale Honourable Aline Emily Partington (b. 1907), married 1936 Sir Kenneth Weir Hogg, 6th Baronet