Dingle Foot

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Sir Dingle Mackintosh Foot , QC (born August 24, 1905 in Plymouth , Devon , † June 18, 1978 in Hong Kong ) was a British legal scholar and politician .

biography

Foot was the son of Isaac Foot , a member of the lower house of the Liberal Party and brother of Hugh Foot , John Foot and the later chairman of the Labor Party Michael Foot , who also became members of the lower house. Because of their attitude towards the political left , the brothers John, Michael and he later became known as "The Three Left Feet".

After training at the Bembridge School, an independent boys' school on the Isle of Wight , he studied law at Balliol College of Oxford University . After completing his studies, he was admitted to the bar in 1930 .

He began his political career the following year, when he was elected a member of the lower house. There he represented the interests of the constituency of Dundee as a member of the Liberal Party from 1931 to 1945. During the Second World War he was in the coalition government of Prime Minister Winston Churchill Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Economic Warfare and in this capacity in 1945 he was also a member of the delegation to the San Francisco Conference for the drafting of the Charter of the United Nations . In the general election in 1945 he lost his constituency to the Labor Party candidate, John Strachey .

In 1950 he ran after the change of the previous constituency holder Tom Harobin to the Labor Party for the Liberal Party in the constituency of North Cornwall, but was subject to the candidate of the Conservative Party , Harold Roper.

In 1956, Foot finally moved from the Liberal Party to the Labor Party and was elected as their representative in 1957 as a member of the lower house. There he represented the constituency of Ipswich this time until he was defeated in the 1970 general election.

After the Labor Party electoral victory, he was appointed as Crown Attorney (QC) in 1964 to Solicitor General for Wales and Scotland and held this office until 1967. At the same time, he was raised to the nobility in 1964 as a Knight Bachelor and since then has had the suffix "Sir". In addition, he was appointed a member of the Privy Council .

Fonts

  • Despotism in Disguise. Britons Publishing Society, London 1937.
  • British Political Crisis. Kimber, London 1976, ISBN 0-7183-0194-3 .

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personal data
SURNAME Foot, Dingle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Foot, Sir Dingle Mackintosh (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Labor Party politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Plymouth , Devon, England
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1978
Place of death Hong Kong