Tarsem King, Baron King of West Bromwich
Tarsem King, Baron King of West Bromwich JP (* 24. April 1937 in Punjab , British India ; † 9. January 2013 in London , England ) was a British politician of the Labor Party , which since 1999 as a Life Peer member of the House of Lords was.
Life
Among other things, King worked as an assistant at the Labor Party from 1960 to 1962 and, after working as a trainee in a foundry, studied mathematics from 1964 to 1965 . After he initially 1968-1974 teacher and later from 1974 to 1990 deputy head of the mathematics department at a school. In 1990 he gave up his teaching job and moved to the private sector , where it between 1990 and 2007 CEO of the company was Sandwell polybags Ltd.
In addition to his professional activities, King began his political career in local politics in the late 1970s and was a member of the Council of Metropolitan Borough Sandwell for the Labor Party between 1979 and 2007, as well as deputy mayor in 1982 and chairman of the council from 1997 to 2001.
By a letters patent dated July 22, 1999, King was raised to the nobility as a life peer with the title Baron King of West Bromwich, of West Bromwich in the County of West Midlands . Shortly thereafter took place its introduction ( Introduction ) as a member of the House of Lords . In the House of Lords he belonged to the Labor Party faction .
In 2001 King, who became Justice of the Peace of West Bromwich in 1987 , was Mayor of Sandwell and from 2002 to 2007 chairman of the West Bromwich City Committee. He also worked as a trustee of the South Staffordshire Water Disconnections Charitable Trust and as Vice President of the Christian Young People's Association (YMCA) in West Bromwich. Lord King was awarded the honorary degrees of Alderman in 2008 and Freeman of the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell in 2009 and received an honorary doctorate (Hon. Ph.D. ) from the University of Wolverhampton .
Tarsem King died of a heart attack on January 9, 2013, at the age of 75, at Euston Station in London .
Web links
- Entry on the homepage of the British Parliament ( Memento of 3 January 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- Tarsem King in Hansard (English)
- Entry in They Work For You (accessed November 16, 2012)
- Biography in Debrett's (accessed November 16, 2012)
Individual evidence
- ^ Tributes paid to the former Sandwell Council leader. In: Birmingham Mail . Retrieved January 10, 2013
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| SURNAME | King, Tarsem, Baron King of West Bromwich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | King, Tarsem, Baron King of West Bromwich, of West Bromwich in the County of West Midlands (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British politician and manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Punjab |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 9, 2013 |
| Place of death | London , England, UK |