Arthur Bottomley

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Arthur Bottomley at the Panglong Conference (1947)

Arthur George Bottomley, Baron Bottomley , (born February 7, 1907 in London ; † November 3, 1995 ibid) was a British Labor politician, Member of Parliament and Minister.

Life

Before Arthur Bottomley entered the British Parliament, he worked as an organizer of trade union the National Union of Public Employees (the later part of UNISON was). From 1929 to 1949 he was a member of the Walthamstow parish council and from 1945 to 1946 mayor of the London borough of Walthamstow .

Bottomley was first elected to parliament in the 1945 general election as a candidate for Chatham constituency, which was renamed Rochester and Chatham in 1950. Bottomley held his seat until the general election of 1959 when he lost it to Conservative Julian Critchley . In a by-election carried out in 1962, he stood for the constituency of Middlesbrough East and again won a seat in parliament, which he - since 1974 for the newly created constituency of Middlesbrough - was able to hold until his retirement in 1983.

During the reign of Prime Minister Clement Attlee Bottomley was Secretary of State, first 1946-1947 for Dominion Affairs , then 1947 for Commonwealth Relations and finally from 1947 to 1951 for overseas trade on the Board of Trade . In the cabinet of Prime Minister Harold Wilson he was again Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations from 1964 to 1966 , in which capacity he sought to deal with the effects of the unilateral declaration of independence of the former British Crown Colony of Rhodesia , and from 1966 to 1967 Minister for Overseas Development Aid.

On the occasion of the New Year's celebrations in 1984, he was promoted to life peer as Baron Bottomley, of Middlesbrough in the County of Cleveland . He died in London on November 3, 1995 at the age of 88.

family

Bessie Ellen Bottomley, b. Wiles, Arthur Bottomley's wife since 1936, was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1970 for her public and social services .

Publications

  • The Use and Abuse of Trade Unions , London: Ampersand, 1963.
  • Control of Commonwealth Immigration. An Analysis and Summary of the Evidence taken by the Select Committee on Race Relations and Immigration 1969-70 (with George Sinclair), London: Runnymede Trust, 1970, ISBN 978-0-902397-03-3 .
  • Commonwealth, Comrades, and Friends , Somaiya Publications, 1986.

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SURNAME Bottomley, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bottomley, Arthur George, Baron Bottomley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Politician (Labor), Member of Parliament and Minister
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 1995
Place of death London