Roy Mason
Roy Mason, Baron Mason of Barnsley PC (* 18th April 1924 in Royston , South Yorkshire , England ; † 20th April 2015 ) was a British politician of the Labor Party .
Life
Mason left school at 14 and worked as a miner before he end of the 1940s, an official at the miners' union National Union of Mineworkers was (NUM). He also studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science on a scholarship from the Trades Union Congress .
He began his political career as a candidate for the Labor Party on March 31, 1953, when he was first elected as a member of the House of Commons in a by-election and initially represented the constituency of Barnsley until 1983 . Most recently he was after the general election from June 9, 1983 to 1987 MP for the constituency of Barnsley Central .
After the Labor Party won the general election in 1964, he was first Minister of State for Shipping in the Board of Trade ( Board of Trade ) in the government of Prime Minister Harold Wilson and, after a brief activity as Postmaster General from April to July 1968, finally Minister of State from July 1968 to October 1969 for energy. Most recently he was from October 1969 to July 1970 as President of the Board of Trade Secretary of Commerce in the Wilson cabinet.
In 1971 he was a member of the assemblies of the Council of Europe and the Western European Union (WEU)
When the Labor Party was able to provide Wilson as prime minister again after the general election of February 28, 1974 , Mason became defense minister in his cabinet.
After the inauguration of Wilson's successor James Callaghan as Prime Minister, he became Northern Ireland Minister in the course of the government reshuffle on September 10, 1976 and thus successor to Merlyn Rees , the new Minister of the Interior. During his tenure as Northern Ireland Minister, there was further implementation of the termination of the so-called special category status and the relocation of formerly respected members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army such as Kieran Nugent to the Maze Prison in September 1976. Nugent brought the Blanket protest by which IRA members refused to wear prison clothing because they saw themselves not as ordinary criminals but as political prisoners .
Mason held the office of Minister of Northern Ireland until the Conservative Party under Margaret Thatcher won the general election on May 3, 1979 .
After leaving the House of Commons, he was awarded the title of Life Peer on October 20, 1987 as Baron Mason of Barnsley, making Mason a member of the House of Lords .
Publications
- Coal and the Common Market , London 1971
- Opec trade, 1973-1976 , 1976
- Paying the price , Autobiography , 1999, ISBN 9780709063681
Web links
- Entry on the homepage of the British Parliament ( Memento of October 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- THE TELEGRAPH: A happy 80th birthday to the IRA's most deadly foe (April 18, 2004)
- Publications (openlibrary.org)
- Roy Mason in the nndb (English)
- British Ministeries (rulers.org)
Individual evidence
Minister of Defense (1940–1964): Winston Churchill | Clement Attlee | A. V. Alexander | Emanuel Shinwell | Winston Churchill | Harold Alexander | Harold Macmillan | Selwyn Lloyd | Walter Monckton | Antony Head | Duncan Sandys | Harold Watkinson | Peter Thorneycroft
Secretary of State of Defense (since 1964): Peter Thorneycroft | Denis Healey | Peter Carington | Ian Gilmour | Roy Mason | Frederick Mulley | Francis Pym | John Nott | Michael Heseltine | George Younger | Tom King | Malcolm Rifkind | Michael Portillo | George Robertson | Geoff Hoon | John Reid | Des Browne | John Hutton | Bob Ainsworth | Liam Fox | Philip Hammond | Michael Fallon | Gavin Williamson | Penny Mordaunt
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mason, Roy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mason, Roy, Baron Mason of Barnsley (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British Labor Party politician, Member of the House of Commons |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 18, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Royston , South Yorkshire , England |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 20, 2015 |