Tom Williams, Baron Williams of Barnburgh

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Thomas "Tom" Williams, Baron Williams of Barnburgh PC (born March 18, 1888 in Blackwell , Bolsover , Derbyshire , † March 29, 1967 ) was a British Labor Party politician who was a member of the House of Commons for 37 years and several years was Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries for a long time and became a member of the House of Lords in 1961 when Life Peer under the Life Peerages Act 1958

Life

Member of the House of Commons

Williams began after the primary education ( Elementary School ) of Swinton in 1899 as a miner in the mine of Kilnhurst to work. He began his political career in local politics when he was elected to the council of Bolton upon Dearne in 1918, an urban district of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley .

In the general election on November 15, 1922 , he was elected as a candidate for the Labor Party for the first time as a member of the House of Commons and, after nine re-elections until October 8, 1959, he represented the constituency of Don Valley without interruption for almost 37 years .

In January 1924, Williams was appointed by Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald to the first Labor government of Great Britain, and was in this until November 1924 Private Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries, Noel Noel-Buxton .

In the second government of the Labor Party, also led by Prime Minister Ramsay, between June 1929 and August 1931 he was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Labor Minister Margaret Bondfield , Great Britain's first female minister.

During the Second World War he was in the coalition government of Prime Minister Winston Churchill from May 1940 to July 1945 Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, which was headed at that time by the Conservative Party Minister Robert Hudson . In this function he was appointed Privy Councilor in 1941 .

Agriculture Minister and Member of the House of Lords

After the Labor Party won the general election on July 5, 1945 , Prime Minister Clement Attlee himself appointed Williams Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries . During his tenure there was a supply crisis caused by the extremely hard winter of 1947, which the government countered with unpopular measures to rationalize and regulate private consumption.

He held the position of Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries until his party's defeat by Churchill's conservative Tories in the general election on October 25, 1951 . He then acted between 1951 and 1959 as spokesman for the opposition faction of the Labor Party for Agriculture and Fisheries in the lower house.

Williams, who refused to run again in the general election on October 8, 1959 , was last named Baron Williams of Barnburgh, of Barnburgh in the West by a letters patent dated February 2, 1961 under the Life Peerages Act 1958 as a life peer Riding of Yorkshire was raised to the rank of nobility and as such was a member of the House of Lords until his death. In 1961 he was also a member of the Political Honors Scrutiny Committee .

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  1. ↑ The Great Ploetz . The Encyclopedia of World History , p. 1510, 35th edition, 2008, ISBN 978-3-525-32008-2
personal data
SURNAME Williams, Tom, Baron Williams of Barnburgh
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Williams, Thomas, Baron Williams of Barnburgh, of Barnburgh in the West Riding of Yorkshire (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Labor Party politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Blackwell , Bolsover , Derbyshire
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1967