Derek Page, Baron Whaddon

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

John Derek Page, Baron Whaddon (* 14. August 1927 in Sale , Cheshire , † 16th August 2005 ) was a British lawyer , business leaders and politicians of the Labor Party , which for several years member of the House of Commons was in 1978 as a Life Peer due of the Life Peerages Act 1958 became a member of the House of Lords .

Life

Professional career and unsuccessful lower house candidates

Page, son of a railroad worker, attended the Roman Catholic St Bede's College in Manchester with financial support through a scholarship and then completed a degree in sociology at the University of London . He then began his professional career in the agrochemical company Fisons .

As a candidate for the Labor Party, Page applied in the general election on May 26, 1955 in the Northwich constituency for the first time in a member of the parliament, but was subject to the constituency owner of the Conservative Party, John Foster . He later served as sales manager for Carnegies in Welwyn and, since 1962, director of the Cambridge Chemical Company .

In the elections that followed on October 8, 1959 , he ran again for a member of parliament, now in the Isle of Legge constituency . This time, too , he was clearly defeated by the conservative constituency owner and later chairman of the 1922 Committee , representing the interests of the backbenchers of the Conservative Party, Harry Legge-Bourke . While Legge-Bourke received 26,173 votes (57 percent), Page received only 19,705 votes (43 percent).

Member of the House of Commons

In the general election of October 15, 1964 Page was elected as a candidate for the Labor Party in the constituency of King's Lynn as a member of the House of Commons and belonged to this until the elections on June 18, 1970 . In his first election he was able to prevail with a narrow majority of just 104 votes (0.2 percent), against the conservative constituency owner Denys Bullard, who received 21,356 votes, while he himself got 21,460 votes. Bullard, a well-known farmer, broadcaster and agricultural specialist, was a Member of the House of Commons for the constituency of South West Norfolk between 1951 and 1955 and has represented King's Lynn in the House of Commons since 1959 .

On November 11, 1964, he gave his maiden speech ( Maiden Speech ) in the House of Commons on tax rebates on exports. After incorporating the local North Norfolk economy , he went into detail on the problems of buying computer accessories from the US and that Britain would have more benefit from producing high technology on its own than relying solely on US technology. During his time in the House of Commons, he was also one of the most determined opponents of the Vietnam War . He spoke out against being included in the Vietnam War and, as a supporter of Michael Foot and Jack Mendelson, was one of the critics of the US military operations there.

Page was also able to beat Bullard in the election on March 31, 1966 , with the election result this time being much more in favor of Page, who received 23,324 votes this time, while his conservative challenger Bullard received 21,305 votes.

Loss of lower house mandate and upper house member

In the elections of June 18, 1970, he lost his mandate. He had only 33 votes less than his challenger from the Conservative Tories , Christopher Brocklebank-Fowler : While Brocklebank-Fowler received 23,822 votes, he received 23,789 votes.

By a letters patent dated April 26, 1978 Page was raised as a life peer with the title Baron Whaddon , of Whaddon in the County of Cambridgeshire, to the nobility and was a member of the House of Lords until his death. During his membership in the House of Lords , he was a member of the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology , where he earned the recognition of the later committee chairman David Chilton Phillips, Baron Phillips of Ellesmere .

In the following years he worked again as an economic manager, namely as director of Micro Automatics and of Rindalbourne Ltd. between 1983 and 1990. He was also CEO of Daltrade since 1983 and of Skorimpex-Rind since 1986. With these companies he operated, among other things, economic relations with Poland and was awarded the Order of Merit of the People's Republic of Poland in 1989 for the services acquired there .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 5. TAX REBATES FOR EXPORTS , debate in the House of Commons, Hansard, November 11, 1964
  2. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 47495, HMSO, London, March 20, 1978, p. 3573 ( PDF , accessed November 25, 2013, English).
  3. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 47522, HMSO, London, April 22, 1978, p. 5007 ( PDF , accessed November 25, 2013, English).
personal data
SURNAME Page, Derek, Baron Whaddon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Page, John Derek, Baron Whaddon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician and business manager
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Sale , Cheshire
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 2005