Lewis Cohen, Baron Cohen of Brighton

Lewis Coleman Cohen, Baron Cohen of Brighton (* 28. March 1897 ; † 21st October 1966 ) was a British business leaders and politicians of the Labor Party , which at times Mayor of Brighton was and in 1965 as a Life Peer due to the Life Peerages Act 1958 a member of the House of Lords was.

Life

Cohen, who came from a Jewish family and the son of a jeweler , completed his education at the Grammar Schools in Hastings and Brighton and the École Moyenne de Saint-Giles in Brussels . His professional career began in 1929 as secretary of the construction company Brighton and Sussex Building Society .

His political career began Cohen in local politics when he in 1930 as a candidate of the Labor Party for the first time a member of the city council elected by Brighton was, where he remained for several decades. In 1933 he became executive director of the Brighton and Sussex Building Society . During this time he campaigned for the Jewish community in Brighton.

During his tenure committed as mayor of Brighton Cohen 1956 to 1957 along with Howard Johnson , the Conservative Party as a member of the city council of Brighton and from 1950 to 1959 as a member of the constituency Brighton Kemptown in the House of Commons one advocated for the establishment municipal housing association. After he was since 1959 chairman and executive director of the Brighton and Sussex Building Society emerged Alliance Building Society , he took over the function of an alderman ( Alderman ) of Brighton in 1964 .

By a letters patent dated May 13, 1965, Cohen was raised to the nobility due to the Life Peerages Act 1958 as a life peer with the title Baron Cohen of Brighton , of Brighton in the County of Sussex, and thus belonged to the House of until his death Lords as a member.

Web links

• Lewis Cohen at Hansard (English)
• Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• Lewis Coleman Cohen, Baron Cohen of Brighton, on thepeerage.com , accessed September 11, 2016.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Brighton Jewry ( Memento October 22, 2013 on the Internet Archive ).
2. ↑ Provincial Jewry in Victorian Britain ( Memento of the original from March 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
3. ^ The Jews of Brighton, 1770-1900 .
4. ↑ The First Fifty Years ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Homepage of the Brighton and Hove Progressive Synagogue). 
5. ↑ Home News: Life Peers ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 5.7 MB). In: Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) News , June 1965, p. 5.