Samuel Segal, Baron Segal

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Samuel Segal, Baron Segal MRCS LRCP (born April 2, 1902 in Oxford - † June 4, 1985 ) was a British doctor and Labor Party politician who was a member of the House of Commons for five years and in 1964 as a life peer due to life Peerages Act 1958 became a member of the House of Lords .

Life

Doctor, House of Commons candidates and officer in World War II

Segal, son of the rabbi and Talmud scholar Moshe Zvi Segal and the older brother of Judah Segal , a professor of Semitic languages at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London , began studying in 1919 after attending the Royal Grammar School in Newcastle upon Tyne of medicine and physiology at the Jesus College of the University of Oxford , which he in 1923 with a Bachelor of physiology graduated, and at the traditional Westminster Hospital . After completing his studies, he stayed as a surgeon at Westminster Hospital before becoming Senior Clinical Assistant at Great Ormond Street Hospital , a teaching hospital in London specializing in pediatrics . In addition to his medical practice, he served on various hospital committees of London County Council .

During this time, Segal began his political career in the Labor Party, for which he first ran for a member of the House of Commons in the general election of November 14, 1935 for the first time without success in the constituency of Tynemouth . His second candidacy at a by-election ( by-election ) in the constituency Birmingham Aston on 17 November 1935 against the candidate of the Conservative Party , Edward Kellett Orlando , was without success.

After the beginning of the Second World War , Segal began his military service in the medical service of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (RAFVR) in October 1939 , the volunteer reserve of the Royal Air Force (RAF). In the following years he found various uses such as 1940 in Aden and 1941 in the Africa campaign and in the Syrian-Lebanese campaign before he was seconded to the Greek Air Force in 1941 . After his promotion to Major ( Squadron Leader ) in 1942, he first became Chief Military Physician in the RAF's Cooperation Group with the Navy in the Mediterranean and was then a staff officer at the headquarters of the troops in the Middle East ( Middle East Command ) between 1943 and 1944 , before his last position in 1944 until 1945 officer in the medical staff of the Air Ministry .

Post-war MP and member of the House of Lords

After the end of the war, he was elected to the House of Commons in the first general election on July 5, 1945 in the Preston constituency. Subsequently, in 1948, he was medical advisor to Minister of Health Aneurin Bevan when the national health system was founded, the NHS ( National Health Service ). As a member of the Assembly of Deputies of British Jews and as Vice President of the Zionist Federation, Segal criticized the Palestine policy of the government of Prime Minister Clement Attlee and then Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin and instead advocated the establishment of the State of Israel .

After the dissolution of the constituency for the general election on February 23, 1950 , Segal ran instead in this election in the newly created constituency of Preston North , but was defeated by the candidate of the conservative Tories , Julian Amery . In the following period he was active between 1951 and 1962 as a Regional Medical Officer in the Ministry of Health.

By a letters patent dated December 18, 1964, Segal was raised to the nobility due to the Life Peerages Act 1958 as a life peer with the title Baron Segal , of Wytham in the Royal County of Berkshire, and thus belonged to the House of Lords until his death as a member. During his membership of the House of Lords, he acted from 1973 to 1982 as Deputy Speaker and also as Deputy Chairman of Committees .

In addition, Baron Segal, who became an Honorary Fellow of Jesus College in 1966 , served as chairman of the British Association for the Retarded , as chairman of the National Society for Mentally Handicapped Children of 1965 to 1978 as well as chairman of the Anglo-Israeli Association ( Anglo-Israel Association ) between 1968 and 1980 and the Anglo-Israeli Archaeological Association. He was also a member of the Boards of Directors of Carmel College in Oxfordshire and Harris Manchester College at the University of Oxford.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jesus College, Oxford , p. 179.
  2. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 43506, HMSO, London, December 4, 1964, p. 10317 ( PDF , accessed October 10, 2013, English).
  3. ↑ Dr. Samuel Segal, Labor Zionist, Named a Life Peer in England . In: JTA. Jewish News Archive of December 8, 1964.
  4. ↑ Jesus College, Oxford , p. 98.
personal data
SURNAME Segal, Samuel, Baron Segal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician and medic
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Oxford
DATE OF DEATH June 4th 1985