Frank Judd, Baron Judd
Frank Ashcroft Judd, Baron Judd (born March 28, 1935 in Sutton , Surrey ) is a British Labor Party politician .
Judd went to the prestigious City of London School and studied at the London School of Economics . He became General Secretary of Service Civil International and Chairman of the UK National Youth Committee of Freedom from Hunger .
Judd was elected in the 1959 general election for the constituency of Sutton and Cheam (where his mother was a Labor candidate in 1945) and in 1964 in Portsmouth West. He was an MP for the constituency of Portsmouth West until 1974 and after a reorganization of the constituencies for Portsmouth North in 1974 until 1979, when he lost his seat to his conservative opponent Peter Griffiths .
Judd was Junior Minister for the Royal Navy from 1974 to 1976 , Secretary of State for International Development from 1976 to 1977, and Minister of State in the State Department from 1977 to 1979. From 1985 to 1991 he was director of Oxfam .
In 1991 Judd was promoted to Life Peer as Baron Judd , of Portsea in the County of Hampshire . In the House of Lords he is a member of the Joint Committee on Human Rights .
From 1970 to 1973 and again from 1997 to 2005 he was a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe .
Literature and web links
- Times Guide to the House of Commons 1979
- Mr Frank Judd at Hansard (English)
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| SURNAME | Judd, Frank, Baron Judd |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Judd, Frank Ashcroft, Baron Judd |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British Labor Party politician, Member of the House of Commons |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 28, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sutton |