Frank Bowles, Baron Bowles

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Francis "Frank" George Bowles, Baron Bowles (born May 2, 1902 , † December 29, 1970 ) was a British lawyer and Labor Party politician who was a member of the House of Commons for 22 years and in 1964 as a life peer due to the life Peerages Act 1958 became a member of the House of Lords .

Life

Solicitor and unsuccessful House of Commons candidates

Bowles, whose father Horace Edgar Bowles was a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry, began after attending Highgate School in Highgate to study law at University College London , from which he graduated in 1923 with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.). After he received his legal license in 1925, he worked as a solicitor for the Pearl Assurance Company between 1925 and 1947 . He also studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), which he completed in 1926 with a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.).

Bowles, who became a member of the Labor Party in 1924, ran in the general election of May 30, 1929 , October 27, 1931 and November 14, 1935 in the constituency of Hackney North and in a by-election ( by-election ) in the constituency of Preston on November 25, 1936 each unsuccessful for a mandate in the lower house.

Member of the House of Commons and House of Lords

After Reginald Fletcher resigned from the House of Commons on February 4, 1942 after his appointment as 1st Baron Winster, of Witherslack in the County of Westmorland , Bowles succeeded it in a by-election on March 9, 1942 in the Nuneaton constituency for the first time as a member of the House of Commons and was a member of it after six re-elections until his voluntary resignation on December 31, 1964.

While he was a member of parliament he was first deputy chairman of the Labor faction in the House of Commons ( Parliamentary Labor Party ) in November 1946 , before becoming Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons, deputy chairman of the committees and deputy chairman after the resignation of Hubert Beaumont in October 1948 of the Committee on Ways and Means ( Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means ). He held these positions until he was replaced by Charles MacAndrew in February 1950.

Shortly before his departure from the House of Commons, Bowles was raised to the nobility by a letters patent dated December 12, 1964 under the Life Peerages Act 1958 as a life peer with the title Baron Bowles , of Nuneaton in the County of Warwick, and was thus up to on his death as a member of the House of Lords. During his membership of the House of Lords he was from 1964 until the defeat of the Labor Party in the general election on June 18, 1970 Deputy Parliamentary General Manager of the Government Group ( Deputy Chief Government Whip ) and at the same time captain of the bodyguard of the British Queen ( Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard ).

His resignation made it possible for the then technology minister in the cabinet of Prime Minister Harold Wilson , Frank Cousins , to be elected as a member of the lower house in the by-election in the Nuneaton constituency on January 21, 1965.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 43506, HMSO, London, December 4, 1964, p. 10317 ( PDF , accessed October 10, 2013, English).
personal data
SURNAME Bowles, Frank, Baron Bowles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bowles, Francis George, Baron Bowles (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, Member of the House of Commons and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1902
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1970