Donald Wade, Baron Wade

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Donald William Wade, Baron Wade (born June 16, 1904 in Ilkley , West Yorkshire , † November 6, 1988 ) was a British Liberal Party politician who was a member of the House of Commons for fourteen years and in 1964 as a life peer due to life Peerages Act 1958 became a member of the House of Lords .

Life

Wade graduated after attending the Mill Hill School in London to study law at Trinity College of the University of Cambridge . He then worked as a lecturer at the University of Leeds before working as a solicitor and later becoming a partner in a company in Leeds .

Wade was elected as a candidate for the Liberal Party in the general election of February 23, 1950 as a member of the House of Commons for the first time and represented in this after several re-elections until his defeat in the general election on October 15, 1964, the constituency of Huddersfield West .

During his membership in parliament he was in 1956 as the successor to Joseph Grimond Parliamentary Secretary ( Chief Whip ) of the parliamentary group of the Liberal Party in the lower house. He held this position until 1962 and was then replaced by Arthur Holt , while between 1962 and 1964 he held the newly created post of Deputy Chairman of the Liberal Party and at the same time he was Deputy Leader of the Liberal Parliamentary Party .

After leaving the House of Commons, Wade was raised to the nobility by a letters patent dated December 28, 1964 under the Life Peerages Act 1958 as a life peer with the title Baron Wade , of Huddersfield in the County of Yorkshire, and was thus up to his Death as a member of the House of Lords.

In the following years he was first from 1965 to 1967 Deputy Parliamentary Director ( Deputy Whip ) of the Liberals in the upper house, before he succeeded Michael Eden, 7th Baron Henley as President of the Liberal Party in 1967 . He held this position for a year until he was replaced by Desmond Banks, Baron Banks in 1968.

Publications

  • Liberalism: Its Task in the 20th Century , 1945
  • Our Aim and Purpose , 1961
  • Law and Order , 1970, ISBN 9780900520075
  • Yorkshire Survey: A Report on Community Relations in Yorkshire , 1971
  • Europe and the British Health Service , 1974
  • Behind the Speaker's Chair , 1978, ISBN 9780900116100

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 43506, HMSO, London, December 4, 1964, p. 10317 ( PDF , accessed October 10, 2013, English).
personal data
SURNAME Wade, Donald, Baron Wade
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wade, Donald William, Baron Wade (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician (Liberal Party)
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Ilkley , West Yorkshire
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1988