Sydney Irving, Baron Irving of Dartford

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Sydney Irving, Baron Irving of Dartford PC DL ( July 1, 1918 , † December 18, 1989 ) was a British Labor Party politician who was an intermittent member of the House of Commons for twenty years and was temporarily deputy speaker of the House of Commons and in 1979 as Life Peer became a member of the House of Lords under the Life Peerages Act 1958 .

Life

Deputy and Deputy Speaker of the Lower House

After attending Pendower School, Irving completed a degree in economics at the London School of Economics (LSE), from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Economics (B.Sc.Econ.). After training as an officer in an officer training unit, he began his military service as a sub-lieutenant in the West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) on March 9, 1940 . Most recently he was promoted to captain .

After the war he worked as a teacher and lecturer . He was also involved in local politics and was temporarily a member of the council of the Municipal Borough of Dartford .

Irving was elected to the House of Commons for the first time as a member of the House of Commons in the House of Commons election on May 26, 1955 as a candidate for the Labor Party in the constituency of Dartford , and with 25,928 votes (54.4 percent) he was able to clearly defeat the Conservative Party's opponent , PE Walker , enforce, which received 21,730 votes (45.6 percent). He initially represented this constituency for fifteen years until the general election on June 18, 1970 . During this time he was first between 1959 and 1964 Parliamentary Managing Director ( Whip ) and then from 1964 to 1966 Deputy Chief Executive of the parliamentary group ( Deputy Chief Whip ) of the Labor Party in the lower house. In addition, he held the position of Treasurer of the Household between 1964 and 1966 .

After his party's victory in the general election on March 31, 1964 , Irving was first deputy speaker ( Deputy Speaker ) of the House of Commons on April 21, 1966 and retained this function until July 2, 1974. At the same time, he was initially from April 21, 1966 to on October 30, 1968 deputy chairman and then from October 30, 1968 to July 2, 1970 chairman of the influential House Committee for Ways and Means ( Chairman of Ways and Means ).

Election defeats, re-entry into the lower house and upper house member

In the general election of June 18, 1970, Irving, who also became Privy Councilor in 1969, suffered a narrow defeat to his challenger from the Conservative Tories , Peter Trew : while Trew received 27,822 votes (45.96 percent), he received 27,262 votes ( 45.03 percent) and thus lost his lower house mandate to Trew with only 560 votes.

However, in the following general election on February 28, 1974, Irving managed to recapture the constituency of Dartford with a lead of 3,654 votes: While this time he received 19,803 votes (41.98 percent), Trew received only 16,149 votes (34.24 percent) .

After he was able to defend the constituency in the elections of October 10, 1974 with 20,817 votes (47.64 percent) compared to 15,331 (35.09 percent) on the side of his conservative opponent G. Bright, he suffered in the general election on May 3 1979 another electoral defeat. In this election, Bob Dunn of the Conservative Party received 21,195 votes (45.87 percent), Irving only 19,803 votes (42.86 percent).

On February 26, 1976, he was also one of the Deputy Lieutenants of the county Kent appointed.

By a letters patent dated July 10, 1979, Irving was raised to the nobility and was up to as a Life Peer with the title Baron Irving of Dartford , of Dartford in the County of Kent, after his retirement from the House of Commons under the Life Peerages Act 1958 on his death as a member of the House of Lords. Its official launch ( House of Lords ) took place on July 10, 1979 with the support of Hervey Rhodes, Baron Rhodes and George Darling Baron Darling of Hillsborough .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 34813, HMSO, London, March 15, 1940, p. 1619 ( PDF , accessed January 2, 2014, English).
  2. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 43470, HMSO, London, October 23, 1964, p. 9013 ( PDF , accessed January 2, 2014, English).
  3. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 46843, HMSO, London, March 5, 1976, p. 3423 ( PDF , accessed January 2, 2014, English).
  4. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 47868, HMSO, London, June 14, 1979, p. 7599 ( PDF , accessed January 2, 2014, English).
  5. ↑ London Gazette . No. 47901, HMSO, London, July 12, 1979, p. 8777 ( PDF , accessed January 2, 2014, English).
  6. ↑ Entry in Hansard (July 10, 1979)
personal data
SURNAME Irving, Sydney, Baron Irving of Dartford
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Irving, Sydney, Baron Irving of Dartford (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1918
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1989