James Chuter-Ede
James Chuter-Ede, Baron Chuter-Ede OH PC (* 11. September 1882 in Epsom , Surrey , England ; † 11. November 1965 in Ewell , Surrey, England) was a British politician of the Labor Party .
biography
After attending Epsom National School , Dorking High School and Battersea PT Center in London , he studied at Christ's College at the University of Cambridge . During the First World War he did his military service in the British Army with the Royal Engineers .
His political career began as a candidate of the Labor Party when he in the general election in 1923 as a deputy in the lower house ( House of Commons ) is selected and there until the 1924 election the constituency Mitcham represented. He was also involved in local politics and was a member not only of the Epsom City Council , but also of the Surrey County Council .
In the general election on May 30, 1929 , he was again elected a member of the House of Commons, where he represented the constituency of South Shields until 1931 . In this constituency he was finally re-elected in 1935 and was a member of this until 1964. In the meantime he was Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Education from 1940 to 1945 and in 1947 also Mayor of Epsom.
After the landslide election victory of the Labor Party in the general election on July 5, 1945 he was selected by Prime Minister Clement Attlee to the Minister of the Interior ( Home Secretary ) appointed to his cabinet and held that post until October 26, 1951.. In 1951 he was also leader of the Labor majority faction in the House of Commons and thus Leader of the House of Commons .
After retiring from the House, he was on 26 January 1964 as a Life Peer with the title Baron Chuter-Ede , of Epsom in the County of Surrey in the nobility raised and belonged until his death in the upper house ( House of Lords ) on.
Web links
- James Chuter-Ede in nndb (English)
- Hansard
- Newspaper article about James Chuter-Ede in the press kit of the 20th century of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ^ London Gazette (Supplement). No. 43506, HMSO, London, December 4, 1964, p. 10317 ( PDF , accessed October 2, 2013, English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chuter-Ede, James |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Chuter-Ede, James, Baron Chuter-Ede (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British politician, member of the House of Commons |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 11, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Epsom |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 11, 1965 |
| Place of death | Ewell , Surrey |