Cuthbert Alport, Baron Alport

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Cuthbert James McCall Alport, Baron Alport PC DL TD (March 22, 1912 - October 28, 1998 ) was a British Conservative Party politician who was a member of the House of Commons for eleven years and in 1961 as a life peer due to the life peerage Act 1958 became a member of the House of Lords .

Life

Teacher, officer and member of the House of Commons

Alport, son of of South Africa originating physician Arthur Cecil Alport , completed after the visit of Haileybury College to study at Pembroke College of Oxford University , which he in 1934 with a Bachelor of Arts graduated (BA). After he was President of the Union Society at the University of Cambridge in 1935, he taught from 1935 to 1937 as a tutor at Ashridge College in Little Gaddesden and was then from 1937 to 1939 Assistant Secretary of the Education Department of the Conservative Party.

After the outbreak of the Second World War , Alport began his military service with the Royal Welch Fusiliers in 1939 and, after moving to the King's African Rifles, took part in combat missions and combat operations in the East African campaign. He also studied at Pembroke College at the University of Oxford, where he obtained a Master of Arts (MA) degree in 1941 . After studying law , he was admitted to the bar in 1944 as a barrister at the Middle Temple Bar Association ( Inns of Court ) . However, he then resumed his military activity and served between 1944 and 1945 as an officer in the General Staff of the East Africa Command of the British Army .

After the end of the Second World War, Alport, who was awarded the Territorial Decoration in 1949, was director of the Political Center of the Conservative Party from 1945 to 1950.

In the general election on February 23, 1950 , Alport was elected as a candidate of the Conservative Tories for the first time as a member of the House of Commons and represented the constituency of Colchester after three re-elections until February 28, 1961 .

Junior Minister and Member of the House of Lords

After Anthony Eden took office as Prime Minister , he was appointed Assistant Postmaster General by the latter in April 1955 and was as such a representative of Post Secretary Charles Hill until January 1957 . Following his appointment was made by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Minister for Relations with the Commonwealth of Nations ( Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations ), Alec Douglas-Home . Most recently, Alport, who also became Privy Councilor in 1960, was Minister of State in the Ministry for Relations with the Commonwealth between 1959 and 1961 and thus one of the closest collaborators to Minister Alec Douglas-Home and, most recently, from Duncan Sandys .

By a letters patent dated February 16, 1961, Alport was raised as a life peer with the title Baron Alport , of Colchester in the County of Essex, to the nobility and was thus a member of the House of Lords until his death. In the following period he was between 1961 and 1963 High Commissioner in Rhodesia and Nyassaland and later in 1967 both Special Representative in Salisbury and High Steward of Colchester . He has also served in 1974 as a Deputy Lieutenant of Essex .

Publications

  • Kingdoms in Partnership , 1937
  • Hope in Africa , 1952
  • The Sudden Assignment , 1967

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personal data
SURNAME Alport, Cuthbert, Baron Alport
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alport, Cuthbert James McCall, Baron Alport (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1912
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1998