Reginald Sorensen, Baron Sorensen

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Reginald William Sorensen Baron Sorensen, (* 19th June 1891 , † 8. October 1971 ) was a British minister of the Free Unitarian Church and politicians of the Labor Party , which intermittently for 32 years member of the House of Commons was, and in 1964 as a Life Peer became a member of the House of Lords under the Life Peerages Act 1958 .

Life

Sorensen, son of a silversmith, served as a Unitarian minister in the Free Unitarian Church in Walthamstow from 1916 to 1937 .

After he had run unsuccessfully for a member of the House of Representatives in the House of Commons election on December 6, 1923 for the Labor Party in the constituency of Southampton , he was briefly involved from 1924 to 1925 as a member of the County Council of Essex in local politics .

In the general election on May 30, 1929 , Sorensen was elected for the first time as a member of the House of Commons, where he represented the constituency of Leyton West , before he returned it to the Conservative Party candidate , Wilfrid, in the subsequent election on October 27, 1931 Sugden , lost. After being at a by-election ( by-election ) in the constituency Lowestoft had a candidate on 15 February 1934 without success for a lower house mandate, he succeeded in the general election on November 14, 1935 against Wilfrid Sugden to win and recover in the lower house. This time he represented the constituency of Leyton West until the dissolution of this constituency on February 3, 1950. During this time he supported activities of the West African Students' Union (WASU) in 1938 with Arthur Creech Jones , who was also a member of the Labor Party in the House of Commons the Gold Coast Colony .

Sorensen was elected to the House of Commons in the House of Commons elections on February 23, 1950 in the newly created constituency of Leyton , where he was a member of the House of Commons for fifteen years until he voluntarily resigned on February 21, 1965.

Shortly before his departure from the House of Commons, Sorensen was raised to the nobility by a letters patent dated December 15, 1964 under the Life Peerages Act 1958 as a life peer with the title Baron Sorensen , of Leyton in the County of Essex, and as such belonged to the nobility on his death as a member of the House of Lords. During his membership in the House of Lords, Baron Sorensen was Lord-in-Waiting of Queen Elizabeth II between 1965 and his replacement by Beatrice Serota, Baroness Serota in 1968 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 43506, HMSO, London, December 4, 1964, p. 10317 ( PDF , accessed October 10, 2013, English).
personal data
SURNAME Sorensen, Reginald, Baron Sorensen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sorensen, Reginald William, Baron Sorensen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, Member of the House of Commons and Unitarian clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1891
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1971