Joseph Stone, Baron Stone

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Joseph Ellis Stone, Baron Stone Kt MRCS LRCP (birth name: Joseph Ellis Silverstone * 27. May 1903 ; † 17th July 1986 ) was a British doctor , who as a longtime personal physician of Prime Minister Harold Wilson was active and in 1976 as a Life Peer due of the Life Peerages Act 1958 became a member of the House of Lords .

Life

Stone completed a degree in medicine after attending school and worked as a general practitioner after graduating with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) . After the outbreak of World War II , he began his military service as a lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) on September 28, 1940 .

After the end of the war, Stone worked again as a general practitioner. He later became the personal doctor of Harold Wilson, who was Prime Minister from 1964 to 1970 and again from 1974 to 1976. On August 4, 1970, Stone, who was also a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians (LRCP), was beaten to a Knight Bachelor degree and then carried the suffix "Sir".

A letters patent dated June 24, 1976, was raised to the nobility as a Life Peer with the title Baron Stone , of Hendon in Greater London, under the Life Peerages Act 1958 and was a member of the House of Lords until his death. Its official introduction ( House of Lords ) took place on July 14, 1976 with the support of Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford and his brother Arnold Silverstone , who on March 5, 1975 as a life peer with the Baron Ashdown, of Chelwood in the County of East Sussex had also become a member of the House of Lords.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 34992, HMSO, London, November 12, 1940, p. 6556 ( PDF , accessed December 31, 2013, English).
  2. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 45165, HMSO, London, August 4, 1970, p. 8678 ( PDF , accessed December 31, 2013, English).
  3. ↑ London Gazette . No. 45244, HMSO, London, December 4, 1970, p. 13306 ( PDF , accessed December 31, 2013, English).
  4. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 46916, HMSO, London, June 1, 1976, p. 7824 ( PDF , accessed December 31, 2013, English).
  5. ↑ London Gazette . No. 46945, HMSO, London, June 25, 1976, p. 8867 ( PDF , accessed December 31, 2013, English).
  6. ↑ Entry in Hansard (July 14, 1976)
personal data
SURNAME Stone, Joseph, Baron Stone
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stone, Joseph Ellis, Baron Stone (full name); Silverstone, Joseph Ellis (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British doctor
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1903
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 1986