Henry Bucknall Betterton, 1st Baron Rushcliffe, (15 August 1872 – 18 November 1949), known as Sir Henry Betterton, Bt, between 1929 and 1935, was a British barrister and Conservative politician. He served as Minister of Labour under Ramsay MacDonald between 1931 and 1934.
Betterton was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1918[6] and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1920.[7] He was made a Baronet, of Blackfordby in the County of Leicester,[8] in 1929 and raised to the peerage as Baron Rushcliffe, of Blackfordby in the County of Leicester, in 1935.[9] In 1941 he was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire.[10]
Nurses Salaries Committee
Rushcliffe, as he was now known, chaired the Nurses Salaries Committee which was established in October 1941.[11] It was the first official body to fix salary scales and conditions for nursing in England.
The Committee consisted of two panels, each of twenty members, one panel representing employers, the other employees. The committee published two reports in 1943[12][13].
Family
Lord Rushcliffe was twice married. He married firstly Violet, daughter of J. G. Gilliat, in 1912. They had two daughters. After her death in October 1947 he married secondly Inez Alfreda, daughter of Alfred Lubbock and widow of Sir Harold Edward Snagge, in 1948. Rushcliffe died in November 1949, aged 77, when the baronetcy and barony became extinct. His second wife died in May 1955.[1]
Arms
Coat of arms of Henry Betterton, 1st Baron Rushcliffe
Notes
Granted livery badge: A cinquefoil slipped ermine between two ears of wheat in saltire proper enfiled by a circlet Or.
Crest
Between the attires of a stag Or a pheon Sable.
Escutcheon
Argent three pheons Sable on a chief Gules a portcullis chained Or between two cinquefoils ermine.
^Abel-Smith, Brian (1960). A History of the Nursing Profession. London: Heinemann. p. 167.
^First Report Of Nurses Salaries Committee Salaries And Emoluments Of Female Nurses In Hospitals. London: HMSO. 1943.
^Second Report of Nurses Salaries Committee Salaries and Emoluments of Male Nurses, Public Health Nurses, District Nurses And State Registered Nurses In Nurseries. HMSO. 1943.
