Harold Davies, Baron Davies of Leek

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Harold Davies, Baron Davies of Leek ( July 31, 1904 , † October 28, 1985 ) was a British Labor Party politician who was a member of the House of Commons for 25 years and in 1970 as a life peer member due to the Life Peerages Act 1958 of the House of Lords .

Life

Davies was elected as a candidate for the Labor Party in the constituency of Leek in the general election on June 18, 1945 for the first time as a member of the House of Commons, succeeding his party friend William Bromfield , who represented the constituency between 1918 and 1931 and again since 1935, and on one had refused to run again.

Following the Labor Party's victory in the general election of October 15, 1964 , Davies was appointed and held by Prime Minister Harold Wilson on October 20, 1964 as Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance this function together with Norman Pentland until August 6, 1966. After a reorganization of the ministry, he and Pentland then acted as parliamentary secretaries in the Ministry of Social Security until January 7, 1967 , making them the closest collaborators of Margaret Herbison , who was Minister for these Departments between October 18, 1964 and July 26, 1967.

During the Vietnam War in 1965 Davies was sent by Prime Minister Wilson as special envoy for peace talks to North Vietnam , with which he maintained contacts.

After retiring from the Department of Social Security, Davies became Parliamentary Private Secretary to Prime Minister Wilson on January 7, 1967, and held that post until the end of Wilson's term after the Labor Party was defeated in the June 18, 1970 general election . At the same time, Davies was appointed Privy Councilor on January 8, 1969 .

By a letters patent dated September 28, 1970 Davies was raised as a life peer with the title Baron Davies of Leek, of Leek in the County of Staffordshire in the nobility and was thus a member of the House of Lords until his death.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hugo Young: The Hugo Young Papers: Thirty Years of British Politics - off the record , 2008, ISBN 0141903600
  2. ↑ PRIVY COUNSELLORS 1969 - present (Leigh Rayment Peerage)
  3. ↑ London Gazette . No. 45203, HMSO, London, October 1, 1970, p. 10691 ( PDF , accessed October 16, 2013, English).
  4. ↑ Edinburgh Gazette . No. 18921, HMSO, Edinburgh, October 2, 1970, p. 827 ( PDF , accessed October 16, 2013, English).
personal data
SURNAME Davies, Harold, Baron Davies of Leek
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Davies, Harold, Baron Davies of Leek, of Leek in the County of Staffordshire (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1904
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1985