Braham Lyons, Baron Lyons of Brighton
Braham Jack Dennis Lyons, Baron Lyons of Brighton (birth name: Braham Jack Lyons ; * 11. September 1918 in Brighton ; † 18th January 1978 ) was a British journalist and consultant for public relations , which is one of the main speechwriter of longtime Prime Minister Harold Wilson was and in 1975 when Life Peer became a member of the House of Lords under the Life Peerages Act 1958 .
Life
Born Braham Jack Lyons, Lyons was the son of a bookmaker and began working as a journalist and public relations consultant after leaving school. In 1946 he became head of the features section of the weekly newspaper Everybody’s Weekly and later served as director and partner of the advertising agency Traverse, Healy, Lyons & Partners between 1968 and 1975 . He also worked as an independent public relations consultant and one of the most important speechwriters for Harold Wilson, who was Prime Minister of Labor Governments from 1964 to 1970 and again from 1974 to 1976 . For the election campaigns and public appearances of Wilson, Lyons coined terms such as Yesterday's Men (1970) for Wilson's opponents of the Conservative Party around Edward Heath and Social Contract (1972).
At the suggestion of Harold Wilson, Lyons was raised to the nobility by a letters patent dated January 22, 1975 as a life peer with the title Baron Lyons of Brighton , of Brighton in the County of East Sussex, and belonged to his death almost three years later the House of Lords as a member. His official introduction ( Introduction ) in the upper house took place February 4, 1975 with the support of Alice Bacon, Baroness Bacon and Peter Lovell-Davis, Baron Lovell-Davis .
Web links
- Braham Lyons at Hansard (English)
- Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
- Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
- Dennis Lyons, Baron Lyons of Brighton, on thepeerage.com , accessed September 12, 2016.
- William D. Rubinstein, Michael Jolles, Hilary L. Rubinstein: The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History , 2011, ISBN 1-4039-3910-1 . P. 629
Individual evidence
- ↑ London Gazette . No. 46474, HMSO, London, January 24, 1975, p. 1069 ( PDF , accessed November 5, 2013, English).
- ^ Entry in the Hansard (February 4, 1975)
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| SURNAME | Lyons, Braham, Baron Lyons of Brighton |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lyons, Braham Jack Dennis, Baron Lyons of Brighton (full name); Lyons, Braham Jack (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British journalist and PR consultant |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 11, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brighton |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 18, 1978 |