Ian Winterbottom, Baron Winterbottom

Ian Winterbottom, Baron Winterbottom (* 6. April 1913 , † 4. July 1992 ) was a British politician of the Labor Party .

He was elected to the House of Commons (HoC) for Nottingham Central in the 1950 UK general election , a constituency that Labor Party member Geoffrey de Freitas ( MP ) had given up for the promising Lincoln Parliament seat .

Ian Winterbottom retained his parliamentary seat in the 1951 general election with a majority of just 139 votes, but lost it to Conservative candidate John Cordeaux in the 1955 election . Winterbottom ran again to the general election in Nottingham Central in 1959, but Cordeaux won again, who held his seat with an even wider majority.

Ian Winterbottom did not run again in the 1964 elections when the Labor government under Harold Wilson came back to power. However, he was named Baron Winterbottom , of Clopton in the County of Northampton , a Life Peer in 1965 . After the Labor victory in 1966, he entered the Labor government, serving as Under-Secretary of State for the Navy ( Royal Navy ) until 1967, as Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Public Buildings and Works from 1967 to 1968 and finally served as Under-Secretary of State for the Air Force ( Royal Air Force ) from 1968 until the defeat of the Labor government in 1970.

He died in 1992 at the age of 79.

Web links

• Ian Winterbottom at Hansard (English)

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• Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources: UK General Elections since 1832