Charles Hobson, Baron Hobson

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Charles Rider Hobson, Baron Hobson (* 18th February 1903 ; † 17th February 1966 ) was a British politician of the Labor Party , of fourteen years member of the House of Commons was, and in 1964 as a Life Peer due to the Life Peerages Act 1958 a member of the House of Lords was.

Life

Hobson graduated after visiting the Belle Vue Road School in Leeds studying and was after the end of 1927 to 1945 as an engineer in a power plant , as well as more than thirty years as a member of the union of engineers Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU). He began his political career in local politics in 1931 when he was first elected a member of the City Council of Willesden and was a member of it until 1945.

After being briefly in 1945 Alderman ( Alderman ) was in Willesden, he was a candidate of the Labor Partybei the first general election after the Second World War on July 5, 1945 for the first time elected a deputy in the House of Commons and represented there first the constituency Wembley North and then since the general election of February 23, 1950 to the elections on September 18, 1959 the constituency of Keighley .

1947 Hobson was by Prime Minister Clement Attlee , succeeding Wilfrid Burke as Deputy Postmaster General ( Assistant Postmaster General appointed) and served in this capacity as closest collaborator of the then Postmaster General ( postmaster general of the United Kingdom ) Wilfred Paling and Ness Edwards until the defeat of Labor Party in the general election on October 25, 1951 . He later served as Vice-Chairman of the United Authority for East Africa ( Joint East Africa Board ) for the first time between 1955 and 1958 .

By a letters patent from January 20, 1964 Hobson was raised as a life peer with the title Baron Hobson , of Brent in the County of Middlesex, to the nobility and was thus a member of the House of Lords until his death two years later. From 1964, after the Labor Party's victory in the general election of October 15, 1964, until his death as Lord-in-Waiting, he held the position of Parliamentary Director ( Whip ) of the governing faction in the House of Lords. At the same time he was again Deputy Chairman of the Joint East Africa Board from 1964 to 1965.

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SURNAME Hobson, Charles, Baron Hobson
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hobson, Charles Rider, Baron Hobson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, Member of the House of Commons and engineer
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1903
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 1966