Arthur Henderson, Baron Rowley

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Arthur Henderson, Baron Rowley PC KC ( August 27, 1893 - August 28, 1968 ) was a British attorney and politician with the Labor Party , who was, intermittently, a member of the House of Commons for 34 years and temporarily Secretary of State for Air ) and became a member of the House of Lords in 1966 when Life Peer under the Life Peerages Act 1958 .

Life

Degree and lawyer

Henderson was a son of Arthur Henderson , who was three times chairman of the Labor Party, for 28 years a member of the House of Commons and several times minister and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize as chairman of the Geneva Disarmament Conference in 1934 . He completed his education at the Central School in Darlington and at Queen's College in Taunton and then began to study the law at Trinity Hall of the University of Cambridge , which he with Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) graduated.

After Henderson had derived his military service during the First World War , he continued his law studies at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, graduating with a Master of Laws (LL.M.). He was then admitted to the bar ( Inns of Court ) of Middle Temple in 1921 and then took up a position as a barrister .

Member of the House of Commons and Junior Minister

In the general election of December 6, 1923 , Henderson was first elected as a member of the House of Commons and represented the constituency of Cardiff South until October 29, 1924 .

After leaving the House of Commons, he worked again as a lawyer before he was re-elected to the House of Commons after the House of Commons elections of May 30, 1929 , where he again represented the Cardiff South constituency until October 27, 1931 . During that time, he was also Parliamentary Private Secretary to William Jowitt , Attorney General in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, between May 1929 and October 1931 . After he lost his seat in the lower house again in the general election on October 27, 1931 , he resumed his practice as a lawyer.

In the general election on November 14, 1935 , he was re-elected as a member of the House of Commons, where he represented the constituency of Kingswinford until it was dissolved on February 23, 1950 . During the Second World War , Henderson, who was Crown Attorney ( King's Counsel ) in 1939 for his legal services , returned to military service and was promoted to major in 1941 . In the coalition government led by Prime Minister Winston Churchill , he was first Undersecretary of State in March 1942 and then, between February 1943 and May 1945, Financial Secretary to the War Office .

After the Labor Party won the general election on July 5, 1945 and was able to provide Prime Minister with Clement Attlee , Henderson became Undersecretary of State for India and Burma in August . He headed these functions until the sovereignty of India and the associated dissolution of the India Office in August 1947. After that, he was briefly Minister of State for relations with the Commonwealth of Nations .

Aviation Minister and Member of the House of Lords

Subsequently, he was on 7 October 1947 successor to Philip Noel-Baker as Air Minister ( Secretary of State for Air ) and held this position until the end of Attlee's term of office on 25 October 1951. In the meantime was Henderson, who in 1947 also Privy Councilor was , re-elected to the House of Commons in the House of Commons elections on February 23, 1950 in the newly created constituency of Rowley Regis and Tipton, and was a member of the House of Commons until he renounced the House of Commons election on March 31, 1966 . He was also Vice President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe between 1961 and 1962 .

Less than two months after his departure, Henderson was raised to the nobility by a letters patent dated May 27, 1966 on the basis of the Life Peerages Act 1958 as a life peer with the title Baron Rowley , of Rowley Regis in the County of Staffordshire, and thus belonged to the nobility his death on August 28, 1968 as a member of the House of Lords.

His older brother William Henderson was also a member of the House of Commons for a number of years and in 1945, as Baron Henderson of Westgate, became a member of the House of Lords, of which he was a member until his death in 1984.

Publications

  • Industrial Law and Housing Law , co-author Henry Herman Slesser, London 1924
  • Trade Unions and Law , London 1927
  • Henderson and Maddock's Housing Acts, 1925 and 1930 , co-author Herbert Leslie Maddock, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1930
  • Consolidating World Peace , 1931
  • Henderson and Maddock's Housing Acts, 1899 to 1935 , co-authored by Herbert Leslie Maddock, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1935

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ British Ministries (rulers.org)
  2. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 43981, HMSO, London, May 19, 1966, p. 5785 ( PDF , accessed October 20, 2013, English).
personal data
SURNAME Henderson, Arthur, Baron Rowley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1893
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1968