John Hatch, Baron Hatch of Lusby

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John Charles Hatch, Baron Hatch of Lusby (born November 1, 1917 in Stockport , Lancashire , † October 11, 1992 in London ) was a British university professor , journalist , writer and politician of the Independent Labor Party (ILP) and Labor Party , who formed 1978 when Life Peer became a member of the House of Lords under the Life Peerages Act 1958 . Hatch was an expert on the colonialism of the British Empire and the Commonwealth of Nations , which became more important after decolonization , and wrote several books on Africa .

Life

Hatch completed after visiting the Keighley Boys' Grammar School to study at Sidney Sussex College of the University of Cambridge . After completing his studies, Hatch, who was exempt from serving in the military, became a tutor at the National Council of Labor Colleges in 1942 , an organization promoting the further education of the working class , and was subsequently the National Organizer of the Independent Labor Party between 1944 and 1948 ( ILP).

After teaching as a lecturer at the University of Glasgow from 1948 to 1953 , he moved to the party headquarters of the Labor Party in London, where he was Secretary for Affairs of the Commonwealth of Nations between 1954 and 1961. In addition to these activities, he was a correspondent for the Commonwealth of Nations for the political weekly New Statesman for twenty years between 1950 and 1970 .

In 1961, Hatch took over the position of director of the extracurricular department of the University of Sierra Leone and held this position until 1962. In the following years he became political advisor to future leading politicians in Africa such as Julius Nyerere , the first president of Tanzania , or Kenneth Kaunda , the first Presidents of Zambia . As a result of this activity, he was banned from entering South Africa for several years . He later served as the director of the Houston African Studies Program from 1964 to 1970 .

By a letters patent dated May 5, 1978, Hatch was raised to the nobility under the Life Peerages Act 1958 as a life peer with the title Baron Hatch of Lusby , of Oldfield in the County of West Yorkshire, and belonged to the House of until his death Lords as a member. Its official launch ( House of Lords ) on 10 May 1978 supported by Fenner Brockway and Thomas Balogh .

1980 Hatch was director of the Institute of Human Relations of the University of Zambia and remained there until 1982. Recently he was honorary lecturer between 1988 and his death at the Faculty of Development Studies ( School of Development Studies ) of the University of East Anglia .

Publications

  • Coal for the People: The Mines for the Miners , 1945
  • The Dilemma of South Africa , 1953
  • New from Africa , 1956
  • Everyman's Africa , 1959
  • Africa Today - and Tomorrow , 1960
  • A History of Post-war Africa , 1964
  • The History of Britain in Africa , 1966
  • Africa - the rebirth of self-rule , 1967
  • Tanzania , 1969
  • Nigeria , 1971
  • Tanzania: a profile , 1972
  • Africa emergent; Africa's problems since independence , 1974
  • Two African Statesmen , 1976

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 47495, HMSO, London, March 20, 1978, p. 3573 ( PDF , accessed January 1, 2014, English).
  2. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 47529, HMSO, London, May 9, 1978, p. 5481 ( PDF , accessed January 1, 2014, English).
  3. ↑ Entry in Hansard (May 10, 1978)
personal data
SURNAME Hatch, John, Baron Hatch of Lusby
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hatch, John Charles, Baron Hatch of Lusby (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British university professor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockport , Lancashire
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1992
Place of death London