Kenneth Robinson (politician)

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Sir Kenneth Robinson , PC (* 11. March 1911 in Warrington , Cheshire , † 19th February 1996 in London ) was a British politician of the Labor Party , the 1949-1970 Member of Parliament ( House of Commons ) and several times minister was.

Life

Kenneth Robinson, son of the doctor Clarence Robinson and the nurse Ethel Marion Linell, first attended the Malsis School and then the renowned Oundle School , founded in 1556 , which he had to leave for financial reasons after the death of his father in 1926. He then worked as an office clerk at Lloyd's of London and served in the Royal Navy during World War II . He was an officer aboard the battleship HMS King George V recently and became a Lieutenant Commander ( Lieutenant Commander ) transported. After the war he returned to Lloyd's of London as assistant to the board .

At the same time Robinson began his political career for the Labor Party in local politics and was at the death of the former deputy George House made necessary on February 8, 1949 by-election (by-election) in the constituency St Pancras North first time as a member of the lower house ( House of Commons ) , of which he was a member until June 8, 1970. At the beginning of his parliamentary membership he was first assistant parliamentary manager (assistant Whip) during the Attlee government between 1950 and 1951 and then from 1951 to 1954 parliamentary manager of the now opposition Labor faction (opposition Whip) .

After the Labor Party's victory in the general election on October 15, 1964 , Robinson became Minister of Health in the Wilson I cabinet on October 18, 1964 and held this position until this ministerial office was assigned to the post of Minister for Social Services (Secretary of State for Social Services) Richard Crossman on 21 October 1964 he was elected a member of the secret Privy Council on November 1, 1968. ( Privy Council ) appointed. He then took over on November 1, 1968, the newly created office of Minister for Planning and Land (Minister for Planning and Land) , which he held until the dissolution of this office on October 6, 1969.

After leaving the House of Commons, Kenneth Robinson took on several other public functions, including being Director of Social Policy at British Steel between 1970 and 1974, and then Managing Director of Human Resources and Social Policy between 1972 and 1975. At the same time he was chairman of the English National Opera (ENO) from 1972 to 1977 . In 1975, he replaced Richard Way as CEO of the London Transport Executive (LTE) from, the managing authority for the public transport of the Greater London Council (GLC), and held this position until his replacement by Ralph Bennett 1978. At the same time, he was in 1977 as a successor to Patrick Gibson, Baron Gibson chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain responsible for the promotion of the fine arts and held this position until 1982, when William Rees-Mogg succeeded him. He was also trustee of the Imperial War Museum between 1978 and 1984 .

For his services, Kenneth Robinson was beaten to Knight Bachelor on March 17, 1983 and has since had the suffix "Sir". From his 1941 marriage to Elizabeth Edwards, who died in 1993, a daughter was born.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ His successor in the constituency of St Pancras North was then Albert "Jock" Stallard , the later Baron Stallard , of St. Pancras in the London Borough of Camden.
  2. ^ Minister of Health in the Hansard
  3. ↑ PRIVY COUNSELLORS 1915 - 1968 (leighrayment.com)
  4. ^ Minister for Planning and Land in the Hansard
  5. ↑ London Gazette . No. 49328, HMSO, London, April 22, 1983, p. 5510 ( PDF , accessed March 4, 2019, English).
  6. ↑ KNIGHTS AND DAMES
personal data
SURNAME Robinson, Kenneth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Warrington , Cheshire
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1996
Place of death London