Geoffrey de Freitas
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Sir Geoffrey Stanley de Freitas KCMG (born April 7, 1913 - August 10, 1982 in Cambridge ) was a British politician and diplomat .
Life
Geoffrey de Freitas was the son of Edith de Freitas and Anthony de Freitas. After boarding school at Haileybury, England, he studied at Clare College, Cambridge . Followed two years at Yale, with a Mellon Fellowship in international law, and on the return trip in 1936 he met his future wife.
In 1938 he married Helen Graham Bell, with whom he had three sons and a daughter.
He practiced as a lawyer in London and gained political experience as a councilor in Shoreditch. During World War II he was a Squadron Leader in the Royal Air Force .
After 1945 he lived with his family in Loughton and Cambridge. In the 1945 House of Commons elections , he was elected as a Labor candidate in the Nottingham Central constituency. He was Parliamentary Secretary of State in Clement Attlee's cabinet .
As Secretary of State for Aviation, he attended the United Nations General Assembly in 1947 in Lake Success . He was involved in the drafting of the North Atlantic Treaty and was included in the Parliamentary Assembly of NATO .
In the 1950 elections, de Freitas became a member of the House of Commons for the Lincoln constituency. He became Secretary of State in the Home Office and lectured at the House of Commons. For a while, Betty Boothroyd was his assistant and remained a friend of the family.
In 1957 he chaired a conference of the Hansard Society on parliamentary governments in West Africa. In October 1961 he became Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George . He resigned from the House of Commons on December 20, 1961, while applying for the sinecure of Deputy and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead . In 1961 he was briefly High Commissioner in Accra , Ghana . It was the first appointment to represent the Labor government in the recently independent former British colonies. From 1963 to 1964 he was High Commissioner in Nairobi , Kenya . There he tried to support an East African alliance consisting of Uganda , Tanganyika and Kenya.
In 1964 he accepted the offer to run for the Labor Party in the Kettering constituency , and returned to England. In 1965, de Freitas led the Labor delegation to the Council of Europe and was chairman of the Council of Europe from 1966 to 1969.
From 1975 to 1979 Sir Geoffrey sat in the European Parliament .
Individual evidence
- ^ The Independent , December 17, 1998, http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-helen-de-freitas-1191854.html
- ↑ http://www.waterways.org.uk/learning/waterways_personalities/sir_geoffrey_de_freitas
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Arthur Snelling |
High Commissioner in Ghana 1961–1964 |
Harold Smedley |
|
High Commissioner in Kenya 1963–1964 |
Malcolm MacDonald | |
| Pierre Pflimlin |
President of the Council of Europe 1966–1969 |
Oliver Reverdin |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | De Freitas, Geoffrey |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | De Freitas, Geoffrey Stanley (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British politician and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 7, 1913 |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 10, 1982 |
| Place of death | Cambridge |