Ernest Popplewell, Baron Popplewell

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Ernest Popplewell, Baron Popplewell CBE JP ( December 10, 1899 - August 11, 1977 ) was a British Labor Party politician who was a member of the House of Commons for more than twenty years and who was a life peer under the Life Peerages Act in 1966 1958 became a member of the House of Lords .

Life

Popplewell worked as a signal worker at British Railways after leaving school . In the general election on July 5, 1945, he was elected as a candidate for the Labor Party for the first time as a member of the House of Commons, where he represented the constituency of Newcastle upon Tyne West for almost 21 years until he resigned on March 10, 1966 . During the tenure of Prime Minister Clement Attlee , he was Vice-Chamberlain of the Royal Household from 1947 to 1951 .

After the Labor Party's defeat in the general election on October 25, 1951 , he was Parliamentary Secretary of the opposition Labor Group ( Opposition Whip ) between 1951 and 1955 , before he was Deputy Chief Executive ( Deputy Opposition Chief Whip ) between 1955 and 1959 . During his membership of the House of Commons, he was last between 1964 and 1966 chairman of the House Committee on Nationalized Industries ( Select Committee on Nationalized Industries ).

Three months after his departure from the House of Commons was Popplewell, who temporarily as justices of the peace ( justice of the peace had) and for his services in 1951 Commander of the Order of the British Empire was, by a Letters Patent from June 6, 1966 due to the Life peerages Elevated to nobility in 1958 as Life Peer titled Baron Popplewell , of Sherburn in Elmet in the West Riding of the County of Yorkshire . His introduction ( Introduction ) in the upper house took place on the side of William Henderson, 1st Baron Henderson and Arthur Champion, Baron Champion on 29 June 1966. He was thus the House of Lords as a member until his death on.

In 1967 he worked with Billy Blyton, Baron Blyton as one of the two "sponsors" in the introduction of the long-time president of the United Union of Boilermakers, Shipbuilders, Blacksmiths and Construction Workers ( Amalgamated Society of Boilermakers, Shipwrights, Blacksmith and Structural Workers ) Edward Hill, Baron Hill of Wivenhoe as a member of the House of Lords.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Wild Clydesider" Becomes A Baron . In: The West Australian of November 30, 1951
  2. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 43981, HMSO, London, May 19, 1966, p. 5785 ( PDF , accessed October 20, 2013, English).
  3. ↑ Edinburgh Gazette . No. 18463, HMSO, Edinburgh, June 7, 1966, p. 459 ( PDF , accessed October 20, 2013, English).
  4. ↑ Hansard of June 29, 1966
  5. ↑ Blue Blood of England "Invaded" . In: Reading Eagle, December 24, 1967
personal data
SURNAME Popplewell, Ernest, Baron Popplewell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician (Labor Party)
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1899
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1977