Frank Soskice, Baron Stow Hill

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Frank Soskice, Baron Stow Hill , PC ( 23 July 1902 - 1 January 1979 ) was a British lawyer and politician ( Labor Party ) and British Home Secretary from 1965 to 1966 .

Life

Soskice's father was the Russian journalist and revolutionary David Soskice , who fled the Bolsheviks into exile in Britain. His mother was a granddaughter of both the painter Ford Madox Brown and the Münster publisher Johann Hermann Hüffer , niece of the artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti and sister of the writer Ford Madox Ford .

Frank Soskice attended St. Paul's School in London and studied law at Balliol College of Oxford University . He participated in the First World War as a soldier in the British Army. In 1926 he was admitted to the bar by the Honorable Society of Inner Temple .

His son is the renowned economist and political scientist David Soskice .

Political career

Soskice was first elected as a member of the British House of Commons for the Labor Party in 1945. In the government of Prime Minister Clement Attlee , he served as Solicitor General (comparable to a German Deputy Attorney General ) and briefly as British delegate to the General Assembly of the United Nations . In 1951 he became Attorney General , in 1952 he was a member of the Labor Party's shadow cabinet .

In the Labor government of Harold Wilson , Soskice became Minister of the Interior in 1964 . During his only one year term of office, the first British anti-discrimination law, the Race Relations Act of 1965, and the suspension of the death penalty in Great Britain (initially limited to four years, later completely abolished under Home Secretary James Callaghan ) fall . In late 1965 he became Lord Keeper of the British Government Seal.

In 1966 he retired from government and was named Baron Stow Hill of Newport , County Monmouth, a lifelong member of the British House of Lords .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Barry Hollingsworth: David Soskice in Russia in 1917. In: European History Quarterly. No. 6, 1976, pp. 73-97.
  2. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 35040, HMSO, London, January 14, 1941, p. 247 ( PDF , accessed October 1, 2013, English).
  3. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 43981, HMSO, London, May 19, 1966, p. 5785 ( PDF , accessed October 1, 2013, English).
personal data
SURNAME Soskice, Frank, Baron Stow Hill
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Soskice, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British lawyer and politician (Labor Party), Member of the House of Commons, British Home Secretary
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1902
DATE OF DEATH 1st January 1979