Michael Winstanley, Baron Winstanley

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Michael Platt Winstanley, Baron Winstanley LRCP MRCS (born August 27, 1918 in Nantwich , Cheshire - † July 18, 1993 ) was a British doctor , moderator and politician of the Liberal Party , who was a member of the House of Commons for several years and who was in 1976 as Life Peer became a member of the House of Lords under the Life Peerages Act 1958 .

Life

Doctor and moderator

Winstanley completed a medical degree after attending school . After the end of World War II , he was in 1945, first surgeon in the hospital of Wigan and then in 1946 after his promotion to Lieutenant surgeon in the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC), the Medical Corps of the British Army , before he 1948-1966 as a general practitioner in Urmston settled down. In addition, at the same time was 1950-1966 also operating physician of the Royal Munitionsfabrik ( Royal Ordnance Factory ) in Patricroft and simultaneously 1953-1966 surgeon Treasury ( HM Treasury ) and Admiralty ( Admiralty ).

In addition to his medical practice Winstanley was until his death as a presenter of radio and television programs active from 1957 and was especially by the Independent Television transmitter Granada Television broadcast program This Is Your Right , which is about questions about consumer protection went. Furthermore wrote 1964-1965 columns on cricket for the daily newspaper Manchester Evening News .

Member of the House of Commons and House of Lords

In the general election on May 31, 1966 , Winstanley was elected as a member of the House of Commons in the Cheadle constituency for the first time, opposing the previous constituency holder of the Conservative Party , William Shepherd , with just 32,071 votes (42.4%) to 31,416 Votes (41.5%) prevailed. Although he was able to improve in the subsequent election on June 18, 1970 to 37,974 votes (44.3%), he was defeated by his challenger from the conservative Tories , Tom Normanton , who came to 39,728 votes (46.3%) and Winstanley thus lost his mandate. Between 1970 and 1976 he again wrote a weekly column for the Manchester Evening News .

In the elections of February 28, 1974 , he was re-elected as a member of the House of Commons in the newly created constituency of Hazel Grove . This time he won with 26,966 votes (46.3%) against the candidate of the Conservative Party, Tom Arnold , who could unite 24,968 votes (42.9%). However, Winstanley lost this constituency again in the following election on October 10, 1974 , with Arnold now winning with 25,012 votes (44.9%), while Winstanley suffered 22,181 votes (39.8%) significant losses. During this eight-month parliamentary membership, he acted as Parliamentary Director  ( Whip ) of the faction of the Liberal Party in the lower house.

For his many years of service Winstanley was raised to the nobility by a letters patent dated January 23, 1976 as a life peer with the title Baron Winstanley , of Urmston in Greater Manchester, and was a member of the House of Lords until his death.

Baron Winstanley was also from 1978 to 1980 chairman of the so-called Countryside Commission , a body for the administration of the national parks in England and Wales, and from 1986 until his death he was deputy pro-chancellor of Lancaster University, which was founded in 1964 .

family

Winstanley's daughter, Diana Winstanley (1960-2006), made a name for herself as an economist.

Publications

  • The Anatomy of First Aid , Daily Mirror , 1966
  • Keeping Off the Sick List , Robert Maxwell at Pergamon, 1967

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 37848, HMSO, London, January 7, 1947, p. 223 ( PDF , accessed November 18, 2013, English).
  2. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 46765, HMSO, London, December 16, 1975, p. 16079 ( PDF , accessed November 12, 2013, English).
  3. ↑ London Gazette . No. 46809, HMSO, London, January 27, 1976, p. 1297 ( PDF , accessed November 18, 2013, English).
  4. ↑ James Ward: Diana Winstanley: teacher, researcher and friend . In: International Journal Work Organization and Emotion . tape 1 , no. 4 . InderSciences Publishers, 2006, pp. 303-304 .
personal data
SURNAME Winstanley, Michael, Baron Winstanley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Winstanley, Michael Platt, Baron Winstanley (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British doctor, moderator and politician (Liberal Party)
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Nantwich , Cheshire
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1993