Charles Royle, Baron Royle

Charles Royle, Baron Royle JP ( January 23, 1896 - September 30, 1975 ) was a British businessman and Labor Party politician who was a member of the House of Commons for nineteen years and who was a life peer under the Life Peerages Act 1958 in 1964 Became a member of the House of Lords .

Life

Royle, whose father Charles Royle had represented the constituency of Stockport as a member of the House of Commons between December 1923 and October 1924 , did military service with the Royal Engineers on the Western Front after attending Stockport Grammar School during the First World War .

Subsequently, Royle was an entrepreneur in the meat trade and was involved as chairman of Stockport's Labor Party and vice-chairman of the Association of Local Councils ( Magistrates Association ) in local politics . In the general election of November 14, 1935 , he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the constituency of Lancaster . During the Second World War from 1939 to 1945 he also worked as a meat agent for the Ministry of Food and between 1942 and 1943 he was President of the Manchester and Salford Meat Trader's Association .

In the general election of July 5, 1945 , Royle was elected as a Labor Party candidate as a member of the House of Commons and represented the constituency of Salford West for nineteen years until he resigned on August 31, 1964 . During this time he was Lord Commissioner of the Treasury during the tenure of Prime Minister Clement Attlee between 1950 and 1951 and, after the subsequent defeat of his party in the general election on October 25, 1951 to 1954, Parliamentary Secretary ( Whip ) of the opposition Labor faction in the lower house .

Shortly before his departure from the House of Commons, Royle was raised to the nobility by a letters patent dated August 25, 1964 as a Life Peer with the title Baron Royle , of Pendleton in the City of Salford, under the Life Peerages Act 1958 and as such belonged to the nobility on his death as a member of the House of Lords.

During his membership in the House of Lords, Baron Royle was temporarily deputy speaker and vice chairman of the committees of the House of Lords. He was also active as President of the British- Caribbean Association , Vice-President of the Association of Metropolitan Corporations and Chairman of the Alliance Building Society . Baron Royle, who is also an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Architects and Surveyors ( Institute of Architects and Surveyors ) was also served as a magistrate ( justice of the peace ) of Brighton .

Web links

• Charles Royle at Hansard (English)
• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• Charles Royle, Baron Royle, on thepeerage.com , accessed September 12, 2016.
• Entry on Parliament's homepage