Frederick Roberts (politician)
Frederick Owen Roberts (born July 2, 1876 in East Haddon , Northamptonshire, † October 23, 1941 in Northampton) was a British politician ( Labor Party ).
Life and activity
Roberts was a son of Thomas Andrew Roberts. He was early on in the British trade union movement.
On the occasion of the general election of 1918, in which he ran for the Labor Party in the constituency of West Bromwich, he was elected to the British Parliament for the first time. In the election he was able to prevail against the conservative mandate holder Viscount Lewisham. He was able to defend his seat in the following three elections before finally losing to the conservative candidate Alexander Ramsay in the 1931 election. In the general election of 1935, however, he was able to regain his seat, which he now held until he withdrew from the lower house on April 3, 1941 for health reasons.
In 1924, Roberts held the post of Minister of Pensions in the short-lived government of Ramsay MacDonald for a few months . In this capacity he was also admitted to the Pricy Council, the British Privy Council. From 1929 to 1931 he took over the same portfolio in the second MacDonald government.
From 1926 to 1927 Roberts served as chairman of the Labor Party.
The National Socialist police officers classified Roberts as an enemy of the state: in the spring of 1940 the Reich Main Security Office in Berlin put him on the special wanted list GB , a list of people who, in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles - where he was mistakenly suspected - by the Wehrmacht should be identified and arrested by the SS special commandos following the occupation forces with special priority.
family
Roberts married Celia Dorothea Sexton from Northampton in 1899. They had at least one son, Reuben V. Roberts.
literature
- Mary Agnes Hamilton: England's Labor Rulers. 1924, pp. 97-100.
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry on Frederick Roberts on the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Roberts, Frederick |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Roberts, Frederick Owen (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British politician (Labor Party) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 2, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | East Haddon , Northamptonshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 23, 1941 |
| Place of death | Northampton |