George Darling, Baron Darling of Hillsborough

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George Darling, Baron Darling of Hillsborough ( July 20, 1905 - October 18, 1985 ) was a British journalist and politician of the Labor Party - Co-operative Party , who was a member of the House of Commons for 24 years and in 1974 as a life peer became a member of the House of Lords under the Life Peerages Act .

Life

After attending school in 1919, Darling began working as a worker in the Crewe railroad workshops at the age of fourteen and joined the Labor Party in 1923 as a member. In 1926 he began studying at the University of Leeds , where he became chairman of the Labor Club. He later studied economics at the University of Cambridge and graduated with a Master of Arts (MAEcon.). He then worked as a journalist before he 1930-1937 Head of the Research and Information Department of the wholesale company of cooperatives ( Co-operative Wholesale Society was). He then became editor of the Sunday newspaper Reynold’s News and was last business correspondent for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) from 1942 to 1949 .

In the general election of February 23, 1950 he was operating a co-candidate of the Labor Party / Party in the constituency Sheffield Hillsborough elected deputy in the House of Commons after being in the lower house elections on 14 November 1935 without success in the constituency Macclesfield had a candidate . He was a member of the House of Commons for 24 years until the general election on February 28, 1974 . In his first election he was able to prevail with 28,295 votes (58.7 percent) against his opponent from the Conservative Party , Knowles Edge, who got 19,613 votes (39.8 percent). In his subsequent re-elections he achieved an absolute majority and in the elections of March 31, 1966 , his best result with 67.9 percent. In 1951 he was briefly Parliamentary Private Secretary to a Minister in the Government of Prime Minister Clement Attlee .

After the election of the Labor Party in the general election of October 15, 1964 Darling was the 1959 to 1960 Parliamentary Secretary ( Whip ) of the opposition Labor faction was in the House of Commons, Prime Minister Harold Wilson to the Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce ( Board of Trade ) appointed and held this position as one of the closest associates of the then Minister of Commerce ( President of the Board of Trade ) Douglas Jay until 1968. In 1966 he was also appointed Privy Councilor and was temporarily president of the trading department responsible for compliance with weights and measures Standards Institute (TSI).

After leaving the House of Commons, Darling, who was Vice-President in 1970 and Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in 1971, became a life peer with the title Baron Darling of Hillsborough , of Crewe in the County of Cheshire, through a letters patent dated July 3, 1974 , raised to the nobility . and as such was a member of the House of Lords until his death.

Publications

  • The Politics of Food , London 1941

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 44004, HMSO, London, June 3, 1966, p. 6529 ( PDF , accessed October 19, 2013, English).
  2. ^ Council of Europe Consultative Assembly , p. XI
  3. ↑ London Gazette . No. 46296, HMSO, London, May 21, 1974, p. 6217 ( PDF , accessed October 19, 2013, English).
  4. ↑ Proof of publication ( Google Books )
personal data
SURNAME Darling, George, Baron Darling of Hillsborough
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Darling, George, Baron Darling of Hillsborough (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1905
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1985