Eric Fletcher, Baron Fletcher

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Eric George Molyneux Fletcher, Baron Fletcher Kt PC (March 26, 1903 - June 9, 1990 ) was a British Labor Party politician who was a member of the House of Commons for 25 years and in 1970 as Life under the Life Peerages Act 1958 Became a peer member of the House of Lords .

Life

Solicitor and MP

Fletcher, whose father town clerk of Islington , was completed after the visit of Radley College to study law at the University of London . After completing his studies, he worked as a solicitor from 1925 and from 1940 as a partner in the law firm Denton Hall & Burgin , which is admitted to the Bar Association of Gray's Inn , specializing in questions of international law and private international law . He has also written textbooks on constitutional theory by Albert Venn Dicey and short biographies on the polymath John Selden and the monk Benedict Biscop .

His political career began in the mid-1930s in local politics when he was elected a member of the London County Council (LCC) in 1934 , and in this until 1949 he represented the Islington South constituency.

In the general election on July 5, 1945 , Fletcher was elected as a candidate for the Labor Party in the constituency of Islington East for the first time as a member of the House of Commons, where he managed to clearly beat the previous constituency owner of the Conservative Party, Thelma Cazalet-Keir . While Thelma Cazalet-Keir received 9,960 votes and 34.5 percent, and thus lost 18 percentage points compared to the election of November 14, 1935 , Fletcher achieved 18,936 votes and 65.5 percent. On April 5, 1949, he was appointed a member of the Commission for the Public Loans Work Act 1946 for a four-year term ending April 1, 1953.

In the subsequent re-elections he won clear absolute majorities and was a member of the lower house for almost 25 years until the lower house elections on June 18, 1970 . In 1962 he also became a member of the Church of England congregation .

Minister and Member of the House of Lords

After the election of the Labor Party in the general election of October 15, 1964 Fletcher of was Prime Minister Harold Wilson to the Minister without Portfolio ( Minister without Portfolio ) appointed. After the government was reshuffled after the elections of March 31, 1966 , he resigned from the cabinet and instead became Deputy Speaker on April 21, 1966 and at the same time chairman of the influential Committee on Ways and Means ( Chairman of Ways and Means ). In 1967 he also became Privy Councilor (PC).

After leaving the House of Commons, Fletcher became a Life Peer with the title Baron Fletcher , of Islington in Greater London, through a letters patent dated July 9, 1970, and belonged to the House of Lords for 19 years to the day until his death and eleven months. Its Introduction took place on July 16, 1970 with the support of Gerald Gardiner, Baron Gardiner and Frank Soskice, Baron Stow Hill .

At times he also served as a member of the Senate of the University of London and as governor of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Birkbeck College . He was also vice chairman of the film production company British International Pictures .

Publications

  • The Carrier's Liability. Thesis, etc , London 1932
  • The Students' Conflict of Laws: Being an Introduction to the Study of Private International Law, Based on Dicey , co-author Leslie Burgin , Stevens and Sons, Limited, 1934
  • John Selden, 1584-1654 , 1969
  • Benedict Biscop , J. & P. ​​Bealls, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1981

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 33072, HMSO, London, August 4, 1925, p. 5241 ( PDF , accessed October 16, 2013, English).
  2. ↑ London Gazette . No. 34767, HMSO, London, January 5, 1940, p. 111 ( PDF , accessed October 16, 2013, English).
  3. ↑ London Gazette . No. 38580, HMSO, London, April 5, 1949, p. 1721 ( PDF , accessed October 16, 2013, English).
  4. ↑ Entry in Hansard (July 16, 1970)
personal data
SURNAME Fletcher, Eric, Baron Fletcher
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fletcher, Eric George Molyneux, Baron Fletcher (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1903
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1990