Robert Hughes, Baron Hughes of Woodside

Robert Hughes, Baron Hughes of Woodside

Robert Hughes, Baron Hughes of Woodside (born January 3, 1932 ) is a British Labor politician who was also chairman of the British anti-apartheid movement AAM from 1976 until it was dissolved in 1995.

He went to Robert Gordon's College in Aberdeen and lived from the age of 15 in South Africa , where he lived from 1947 to 1954 and worked as a technical draftsman. From 1970 to 1997 he was a Member of Parliament for the constituency of Aberdeen North , and was then raised to life peer as Baron Hughes of Woodside , of Woodside in the City of Aberdeen .

He was Undersecretary of State for Scotland from March 1974 to July 1975, but resigned from office because he did not agree with the government's income policy.

Lord Hughes is Vice President of the British Humanist Association .

Among his driving board work, the Anti-Apartheid Movement worked against the Thatcher's refusal to impose sanctions on South Africa in the 1980s and organized a "Freedom for Mandela" concert at Wembley in 1988 , which was broadcast worldwide. Lord Hughes participated in the independence celebrations in Namibia in 1990 and was an observer in the first free elections in South Africa in 1994. After the dissolution of the AAM, he became chairman of the successor organization Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) .

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ Julian Desborough et al. (compilers) (1992). The Times Guide to the House of Commons, April 1992 . Times Books Ltd. ISBN 0-7230-0497-8 .
3. ↑ Profile on the pages of the House of Lords
4. ^ Distinguished Supporters of BHA

Web links

• Profile on debretts