Herbert Bowden

Herbert William Bowden, Baron Aylestone CH CBE PC (* 20th January 1905 in Cardiff , Wales ; † 30th April 1994 in Worthing , West Sussex , England ) was a British politician of the Labor Party .

biography

Bowden began his political career first in local politics and was a member of the Leicester City Council from 1938 to 1945 . During the Second World War he did his military service in the Royal Air Force .

After the war he was in the general election in 1945 for the first time a member of the lower house ( House of Commons ) selected and represented there first until 1950 the constituency Leicester South and then from 1950 to 1967 the constituency of Leicester South West .

First he was in the cabinet of Clement Attlee Parliamentary Private Secretary from 1947 to 1949, then Assistant to the Parliamentary Director ( Assistant Whip ) of the Labor Party and between 1950 and 1951 Lord Commissioner to the Treasury . During the subsequent 13-year opposition period , he was Whip from 1951 to 1964 and thus Parliamentary Director of the Labor Party in the lower house.

After the Labor Party won the general election in 1964, Prime Minister Harold Wilson appointed him Lord President of the Council in his cabinet and, as such, was Leader of the House of Commons between 1964 and 1966 . After a cabinet reshuffle, he was then Minister for Affairs of the Commonwealth of Nations from 1966 to 1967 .

After retiring from the House, he was on 20 September 1967 as a Life Peer in the nobility raised, was once a Baron Aylestone , of Aylestone in the City of Leicester, until his death in the upper house ( House of Lords ) as a member. He was also chairman of the Independent Television Authority from 1967 to 1972 .

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