Gilbert Mitchison, Baron Mitchison

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Gilbert Richard "Dick" Mitchison, Baron Mitchison CBE KC (born March 23, 1894 in Staines , † February 14, 1970 in Westminster ) was a British lawyer and Labor Party politician who was a member of the House of Commons for nineteen years and 1964 when Life Peer became a member of the House of Lords under the Life Peerages Act 1958 .

Life

Mitchison began studying law after attending Eton College . He did his military service during the First World War between 1914 and 1918 and was last promoted to major . During this time he was admitted to the bar ( Inns of Court ) of Inner Temple in 1917 and then took up a position as a barrister . He completed further studies at the New College of the University of Oxford with a Master of Arts (MA).

In the general election of July 5, 1945 , Mitchison was elected as a candidate for the Labor Party for the first time as a member of the House of Commons and represented the constituency of Kettering until his voluntary resignation on August 31, 1964 . During this time he was in 1946 because of his legal services to the Attorney-General ( King's Counsel appointed) and furthermore the Commander of the Order of the British Empire appointed.

Mitchison took on numerous leading positions in the opposition Labor faction in the lower house between 1955 and 1964 , and was initially opposition spokesman for housing and local government between 1955 and 1959 and then spokesman for the treasury and trade. After he was spokesman for science from 1961 to 1963 and at the same time for public works and the treasury between 1962 and 1963, he last acted from 1963 and 1964 as spokesman for the opposition Labor faction for pensions.

By a letters patent dated October 5, 1964, Mitchison was raised to the nobility as a life peer with the title Baron Mitchison , of Carradale in the County of Argyllshire, and was thus a member of the House of Lords until his death. After the Labor Party won the general election on October 15, 1964 , Prime Minister Harold Wilson appointed him Parliamentary Secretary in the Department of Lands and Natural Resources.

marriage and family

His marriage on February 11, 1916 to the writer Naomi Mitchison , a daughter of the physiologist and founder of methodical holism John Scott Haldane and sister of the biologist and founder of population genetics J. BS Haldane , had seven children, two of whom died early (the daughter Clemency in 1940 shortly after her birth, the eldest son Geoffrey in 1927 with meningitis at the age of nine ) The bacteriologist Denis Mitchison and the zoologists Murdoch Mitchison and Avrion Mitchison are his sons.

Fonts

  • The First Workers' Government , 1934.

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personal data
SURNAME Mitchison, Gilbert, Baron Mitchison
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mitchison, Gilbert Richard, Baron Mitchison (full name); Mitchison, Dick (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British officer, politician (Labor), Member of the House of Commons and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Staines
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1970
Place of death Westminster