Edward Castle, Baron Castle

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Edward (Edwin) "Ted" Cyril Castle, Baron Castle (* 5. May 1907 , † 26. December 1979 in Ibstone, Chiltern , Buckinghamshire ) was a British journalist and politician of the Labor Party , among others 1951-1952 editor in chief of Photojournalist magazine Picture Post and became a member of the House of Lords in 1974 when Life Peer under the Life Peerages Act 1958 . Castle, who was a member of the European Parliament between 1975 and 1979 , was the husband of the well-known Labor politician Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn , who, among other things, was a member of the House of Commons for 34 years and was Minister on several occasions.

Life

Castle attended Abingdon School and the Grammar School of Portsmouth and, after completing his school education as a journalist. In 1932 he became news editor at the daily newspaper Manchester Evening News before it as a night editor for the newspaper in 1943 Daily Mirror transferred.

During this time he met the young Labor politician Barbara Anne Betts, whom he married in July 1944. Barbara Castle was later a member of the House of Commons for 34 years, one of the most influential ministers in the governments of Prime Minister Harold Wilson and later as Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn herself a member of the House of Lords.

In 1944 he became deputy editor-in-chief of the photojournalistic magazine Picture Post , of which he was editor-in-chief and publisher, succeeding Tom Hopkinson from 1951 to 1952.

In the mid-1960s, Castle began his own political career when he was elected alderman of the Greater London Council for the Labor Party in 1964 and was a member of this until 1970. He was also Alderman of the Borough of Islington Council .

By a letters patent dated June 18, 1974 he was raised as a life peer with the title Baron Castle , of Islington in Greater London, to the nobility and was a member of the House of Lords until his death.

At the same time he was a member of the European Parliament between July 3, 1975 and 1979, making him one of the first representatives of the Labor Party in the European Parliament after the party had given up its opposition to joining the EC in 1973 and decided that it had been entitled to since 1973 Take on mandates.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ AT Lane: Biographical Dictionary of European Labor Leaders , 1995, ISBN 0-31326-4-562 , p. 191
  2. ^ The Houghton Mifflin Dictionary of Biography , 2003, ISBN 0-61825-210-X , p. 287
  3. ^ Entry in The London Gazette of May 21, 1974
  4. ↑ MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT FOR THE UK-PART 1: 1973-1979 ( Memento of February 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Castle, Edward, Baron Castle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Castle, Edward Cyril, Baron Castle (full name); Castle, Ted (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1907
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1979
Place of death Ibstone, Chiltern , Buckinghamshire