Dingle Foot
Sir Dingle Mackintosh Foot, Q.C. ( Born August 24, 1905 in Plymouth, Devon, † June 18, 1978 in Hong Kong ) was a British jurist and politician.
Biography
Foot was the son of Isaac Foot, a member of the House of the Liberal Party and brother of Hugh Foot, Lord John Foot and later chairman of the Labour Party Michael Foot, who also were members of the House. Because of their belonging to the political left, setting the brothers John, Michael, and he later called " The Three Left Feet " was reported.
After training at the Bembridge School, an independent boys' school on the Isle of Wight, he studied law at Balliol College, Oxford University. After graduating in 1930 was admitted to the bar.
His political career began the following year with the election of deputies of the lower house. There he acted as a member of the Liberal Party from 1931 to 1945, the interests of the constituency of Dundee. During the Second World War he was in the coalition government of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Economic Warfare ( Ministry of Economic Warfare ) and in that capacity in 1945 is also a member of the delegation at the conference in San Francisco to draft the Charter of the United Nations. At the general election in 1945 he lost his constituency to the candidates of the Labour Party, John Strachey.
In 1950, he ran after the change of the existing constituency owner Tom Harobin to Labour for the Liberal Party in the constituency of North Cornwall, but was subject to the candidate of the Conservative Party, Harold Roper.
1956 Foot finally moved itself from the Liberal Party to the Labour Party and was elected as a representative in 1957 for the Members of the House. There, he represented this time until his election defeat in the general election of 1970 the constituency Ipswich.
After the election of the Labour Party, he was appointed Queen's Counsel (QC ) in 1964 Solicitor General for Wales and Scotland, and held that office until 1967. At the same time he was in 1964 as a Knight ( Knight) raised to the peerage and led since the additional name sir. In addition, he was appointed member of the Privy Council ( Privy Council ).
Publications
- " Despotism in Disguise ", 1937
- "British Political Crisis", 1976