Charles Leatherland, Baron Leatherland

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Charles Edward Leatherland, Baron Leatherland OBE MSM DL (born April 18, 1898 in Birmingham - † December 18, 1992 in Epping , Essex ) was a British journalist and Labor Party politician who was a member of the Life Peerage Act 1958 as a life peer in 1964 of the House of Lords .

Life

First World War and the beginning of a journalistic career

Leather country in 1908 at the age of ten years after the death of his mother orphan was left in 1912 with fourteen years of school and joined in 1914 at the beginning of the First World War, his military service, giving priority to false statements made about his real age. In the following years he served in the machine gun battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in Belgium , France and Germany and was last promoted to Sergeant Major in 1918 . He was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal for his services .

After the war, Leatherland began his professional career as a journalist with local newspapers in Birmingham and the Macclesfield Courier in Macclesfield . At the same time he became a member of the Labor Party in 1918, to which he belonged for 74 years until his death in 1992. After being involved in election campaigns for some time, he became an employee of the press department in the party headquarters of the Labor Party in London in 1924 , for which he worked as a pamphlet and speech writer and parliamentary correspondent in the House of Commons .

Journalist with the Daily Herald and member of the House of Lords

In 1929 he became Deputy Political Editor for the Daily Herald , a the umbrella organization of trade unions Trades Union Congress (TUC) and the Labor Party affiliated daily newspaper , which was in the following years with a circulation of 2 million copies best-selling daily newspaper in the world .

Leatherland worked as a journalist for the Daily Herald until 1963 , where he was news, night and politics editor, before he was promoted to deputy editor-in-chief .

In addition to his professional career, he was involved in local politics for the Labor Party in Essex and was vice chairman of the Epping City Council from 1944 to 1970 and chairman of the Labor Party regional council for the counties of eastern England from 1950 to 1966 . In addition, Leatherland, awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of the British Empire in 1951 , served as Chairman of the County Council of Essex between 1960 and 1961 and Deputy Lieutenant of Essex in 1963 .

Most recently Leatherland was raised to the nobility by a letters patent dated December 16, 1964 on the basis of the Life Peerages Act 1958 as a life peer with the title Baron Leatherland , of Dunton in the County of Essex, and thus belonged to the House of Lords until his death as a member. In this role, too, he was involved in the County of Essex and was instrumental in founding the University of Essex in 1965.

In the following years he was a member of the Board of Directors of the University of Essex until his death , which awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1973 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard van Emden: Boy Soldiers of the Great War , 2012, ISBN 1408828138
  2. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 43506, HMSO, London, December 4, 1964, p. 10317 ( PDF , accessed October 10, 2013, English).
personal data
SURNAME Leatherland, Charles, Baron Leatherland
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leatherland, Charles Edward, Baron Leatherland (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Birmingham
DATE OF DEATH 18th December 1992
Place of death Epping , Essex