Billy Blyton, Baron Blyton
William "Billy" Reid Blyton, Baron Blyton (born May 2, 1899 in South Shields , Tyne and Wear , † October 25, 1987 ) was a British Labor Party politician who was a member of the House of Commons for nineteen years and who was in 1964 as Life Peer became a member of the House of Lords under the Life Peerages Act 1958 .
Life
Blyton began his professional career as a miner after attending Holy Trinity Primary School and Dean Road Secondary Modern School in 1913 and worked in a mine in South Shields until 1945 . In the following years he was active both as a functionary in the miners ' union MFGB ( Miners' Federation of Great Britain ) and for the Labor Party in local politics as a member of the local council of South Shields, in which he chaired the committees for education and for electricity was.
In the general election of July 5, 1945, he was elected as a candidate for the Labor Party for the first time as a member of the House of Commons and represented the constituency of Houghton-le-Spring until October 15, 1964 . During this time he was in the government of Prime Minister Clement Attlee from 1947 to 1949 as the private parliamentary secretary of a minister. In 1950 he became Freeman of the City of South Shields.
Shortly after his departure from the House of Commons, Blyton was raised to the nobility by a letters patent dated December 16, 1964 under the Life Peerages Act 1958 as a life peer with the title Baron Blyton , of South Shields in the County of Durham, and thus belonged to the nobility on his death as a member of the House of Lords.
In 1967 he worked together with Ernest Popplewell, Baron Popplewell as one of the two "sponsors" at the introduction ( Introduction ) of the long-time President of the United Union of Boilermakers, Shipbuilders, Blacksmiths and Construction Workers ( Amalgamated Society of Boilermakers, Shipwrights, Blacksmith and Structural Workers ) Edward Hill, Baron Hill of Wivenhoe as a member of the House of Lords.
Web links
- William Blyton at Hansard (English)
- Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
- William Reid Blyton, Baron Blyton, on thepeerage.com , accessed September 11, 2016.
- Entry in the National Portrait Gallery (London)
- History of South Shields ( April 8, 2012 memento on the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ London Gazette (Supplement). No. 43506, HMSO, London, December 4, 1964, p. 10317 ( PDF , accessed October 10, 2013, English).
- ↑ Blue Blood of England "Invaded" . In: Reading Eagle, December 24, 1967
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| SURNAME | Blyton, Billy Blyton, Baron |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Blyton, William Reid Blyton, Baron; Blyton, Billy Reid Blyton, Baron (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British politician (Labor), Member of the House of Commons |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 2, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | South Shields , Tyne and Wear |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 25, 1987 |