Malcolm Delevingne was a significant influence on safety regulations in factories and mines, and was an original member of the League of Nations' Opium Advisory Committee.
16 Facts About Malcolm Delevingne
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Malcolm Delevingne was born in London, the second child of Ernest Thomas Shaw Delevingne and wife Hannah Gresswell.
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Malcolm Delevingne's father, a wine and liquor merchant, was born in Paris to British parents of French Huguenot descent.
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Malcolm Delevingne's elder brother, Edgar, was a teacher at the City of London School for 40 years, while his younger brother, Walter, had his own distinguished career in the Indian Civil Service.
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Malcolm Delevingne read classics at Trinity College, Oxford, taking first-class honours in classical moderations in 1889 and in Literae Humaniores in 1891.
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Malcolm Delevingne had strong religious convictions, privately held, which informed his public stance on worker's safety, narcotics and child welfare.
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In 1892, at the age of 24, Malcolm Delevingne passed the civil service exam for clerkships and took his first job at the Local Government Board.
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Malcolm Delevingne was influential in reorganised the Factory Department and establishing an industrial museum, the Home Office Industrial Museum, to promote worker safety, health and welfare.
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Malcolm Delevingne was sent as part of the British delegation to international labour conferences in Bern in 1905,1906 and 1913, in Washington, DC in 1919, and in Geneva in 1923,1928 and 1929.
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Malcolm Delevingne became an expert on factories, and contributed a lengthy article to The Times in July 1933, to coincide with the centenary of the establishment of the Factory Inspectorate.
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Malcolm Delevingne served as chairman of a committee on work shifts for women and youth in 1933, on a commission of safety in coal mines in 1936, chairman of a committee on rehabilitation of the injured, and as chairman of the Safety in Mines Research Board from 1939 to 1947.
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Malcolm Delevingne was an expert on the control of narcotic drugs.
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Malcolm Delevingne never gave up on promoting narcotics controls even after the International Opium Convention of 1925.
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Malcolm Delevingne stayed active in this area after his retirement, representing the United Kingdom at international opium conferences until 1947.
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Malcolm Delevingne became actively involved in the children's foundation Barnardo's in 1903, joining its governing body in 1934, subsequent to his retirement.
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In recognition of his services, Malcolm Delevingne was appointed a Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath in the 1911 Coronation Honours, a Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath in 1919, and a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1932.