William Sefton, Baron Sefton of Garston

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William Henry Sefton, Baron Sefton of Garston (* 5. August 1915 in Liverpool ; † 9. September 2001 ) was a British politician of the Labor Party , which in the local politics involved and chairman of the city council of Liverpool, the Council of the metropolitan county of Merseyside and the development company of Runcorn ( Runcorn Development Corporation ), which dealt with the redesign of this industrial city to a New Town , and which in 1978 as a Life Peer under the Life Peerages Act 1958 became a member of the House of Lords .

Life

After attending Duncombe Road School in Liverpool, Sefton trained as a plumber and then worked in the tannery in the Garston district of Liverpool. Some time later he became a member of the Labor Party and was also involved in the Liverpool Trades Council , the city's trade union federation . There he became chairman of the left-wing Garston Group .

In 1953 he was elected for the first time to the city council of Liverpool and soon rose to deputy chairman of the faction of the Labor Party and was thus as Deputy Leader of the Council representative of John "Jack" Braddock, who from 1955 to 1961 and again between 1963 and 1964 was chairman of the council.

After Jack Braddock's death, Sefton became chairman of Liverpool City Council himself in 1964. In the following years there were numerous demolition measures of old city quarters as well as the construction of new residential areas, which were viewed critically by the population, so that the Labor Party and the Conservative Party lost their majority in favor of the Liberal Party . In the 1973 city council elections, Sefton then lost his council mandate to a candidate from the Liberal Party, which, with Cyril Carr, was also the chairman of Liverpool City Council.

Shortly thereafter, however, Sefton became a member and chairman of the newly formed council of Metropolitan County Merseyside in 1974. After losing the majority in this body he served between 1977 and 1979 as leader of the opposition and was also 1975 to 1989 and Chairman of the Economic Planning Council of North West England ( Northwest Economic Planning Council ). At the same time he was involved between 1974 and 1981 as chairman of the Runcorn Development Corporation ( Runcorn Development Corporation ), which dealt with the redesign of this industrial city into a new town.

By a letters patent dated May 3, 1978, Sefton was elevated to the nobility as a life peer with the title Baron Sefton of Garston , of Garston in the County of Merseyside, and was a member of the House of Lords until his death. His official introduction ( Introduction ) as a member of the House of Lords took place on May 24, 1978 with the support of FitzRoy Somerset, 5th Baron Raglan and Cyril Hamnett, Baron Hamnett .

Between 1981 and 1985 he was vice chairman of the development companies in Runcorn and Warrington , where previous heavy industry was replaced by technology and service companies.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 47495, HMSO, London, March 20, 1978, p. 3573 ( PDF , accessed November 25, 2013, English).
  2. ↑ London Gazette . No. 47525, HMSO, London, May 5, 1978, p. 5311 ( PDF , accessed November 25, 2013, English).
  3. ↑ Entry in Hansard (May 24, 1978)
personal data
SURNAME Sefton, William, Baron Sefton of Garston
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sefton, William Henry, Baron Sefton of Garston (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Liverpool
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 2001