Cyril Hamnett, Baron Hamnett

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Cyril Hamnett, Baron Hamnett (* 6. July 1906 ; † 17th March 1980 ) was a British trade union functionary , journalist and politician of the Labor Party , which in 1970 due to the Life Peerages Act 1958 as a Life Peer member of the House of Lords was.

Life

Hamnett trained at Manchester Technical School after completing school and then worked as a journalist and editor for the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers magazine . He was also to 1933 Secretary of the Independent Labor Party (ILP) in Manchester . Later, he was involved as a member of the Central Executive Committee and the Parliamentary Committee of the cooperative movement ( Co-operative Union ). He was also vice-chairman of the movement's press organs ( Co-operative Press ).

He ran for a member of the House of Commons in the general election on February 23, 1950 and October 25, 1951 for the Labor Party in the Knutsford constituency , but was clearly defeated by Walter Bromley-Davenport , who ran the constituency between 1945 and 1970 won for the Conservative Party . Also in the election on May 26, 1955, Hamnett, who was now President of the Labor Party in Manchester, was defeated in the Knutsford constituency by the constituency holder Bromley-Davenport with 19,486 votes.

For his longstanding service within the cooperative movement, Hamnett was named Baron Hamnett , of Warrington in the County Palatine of Lancaster, a member of the House of Lords and owned by a letters patent dated July 6, 1970 under the Life Peerages Act 1958 until his death.

Publications

  • The History and Purpose of Federations , Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers, 1948

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ General election 1951
  2. ^ General election 1955
  3. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 45117, HMSO, London, June 5, 1970, p. 6365 ( PDF , accessed October 16, 2013, English).
  4. ↑ London Gazette . No. 45144, HMSO, London, July 7, 1970, p. 7484 ( PDF , accessed October 16, 2013, English).
personal data
SURNAME Hamnett, Cyril, Baron Hamnett
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1906
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1980