Charles Garnsworthy, Baron Garnsworthy
Charles James (William) Garnsworthy, Baron Garnsworthy OBE DL JP ( December 10, 1906 - September 5, 1974 ) was a British Labor Party politician who became a member of the House of Lords in 1967 as a life peer under the Life Peerages Act 1958 .
Life
After attending Wellington School, Garnsworthy worked in the construction industry from 1925 before he became an employee of an insurance agency in 1931. In the mid-1930s he began his political career in local politics and between 1937 and 1947 a member of the council of the Urban District of Banstead . After the end of the war he ran in the general election on July 5, 1945 for the Labor Party for the first time for a member of the House of Commons in the constituency of Reigate . He was subject to the elections on February 23, 1950 , October 25, 1951 , May 26, 1955 , October 8, 1959 and October 15, 1964 to the candidate of the Conservative Party Gordon Touche , as was the case with his subsequent candidacies in this constituency and later John Vaughan-Morgan .
Garnsworthy, who is also a co-opted member of the Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers , was also a member of the Child and Youth Welfare Committee of the London County Council (LCC) between 1949 and 1954 , before becoming a member of the Council for the first time in 1952 County Surrey ( Surrey County Council ), in which he, among others, also chairman of the Group was the Labor Party. He was a member of Surrey County Council for 22 years until 1974, and last held the position of Alderman (alderman) from 1966 to 1974 . For his services he was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).
By a Letters Patent of 19 September 1967 Garnsworthy was the temporarily as Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace ( Justice of the Peace acted), according to the Life Peerages Act 1958 as a life peer with the title Baron Garnsworthy , of Reigate in the County of Surrey , raised to the nobility and was a member of the House of Lords until his death. Its official launch ( Introduction ) in the House of Lords was carried out with support from Malcolm Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd and Edward Williams, Baron Francis Williams on 8 November 1967th
On March 14, 1974, he was also appointed Lord-in-Waiting of the Royal Household ( HM Household ) by Queen Elizabeth II, together with John Jacques, Baron Jacques , Reginald Wells-Pestell, Baron Wells-Pestell and Alma Birk, Baroness Birk called. As such he was Parliamentary Director ( Government Whip ) of the ruling Labor faction in the House of Lords.
Web links
- Charles Garnsworthy at Hansard (English)
- Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
- Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
- Charles William Garnsworthy, Baron Garnsworthy, on thepeerage.com , accessed September 11, 2016.
- Entry in Archiveshub
Individual evidence
- ^ London Gazette (Supplement). No. 44378, HMSO, London, August 1, 1967, p. 8533 ( PDF , accessed September 18, 2013, English).
- ↑ Entry in Hansard (November 8, 1967)
- ↑ London Gazette . No. 46242, HMSO, London, March 19, 1974, p. 3538 ( PDF , accessed September 18, 2013, English).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Garnsworthy, Charles, Baron Garnsworthy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Garnsworthy, Charles James William, Baron Garnsworthy (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 10, 1906 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th September 1974 |