George Darling
George Darling, Baron Darling of Hillsborough, of Crewe in the County of Cheshire ( * July 20, 1905, † 18 October 1985) was a British journalist and politician of the Labour Party Co-operative Party, which for 24 years Member of the House of Commons was and 1974, as a life peer Life peerages Act due to the member of the House of Lords.
Life
Darling began after the school in 1919 as a fourteen year old have an occupation as a laborer in the railroad shops of Crewe and joined the Labour Party in 1923 as a member. In 1926 he began studying at the University of Leeds, where he became chairman of the Labour Club. Later, he studied economics at the University of Cambridge and graduated with a Master of Arts ( MAEcon. ). He then worked as a journalist before he was 1930-1937 Head of Research and Information Department of the wholesale company of Cooperatives ( Co-operative Wholesale Society). He then became editor of the Sunday newspaper Reynold 's News and was last 1942-1949 economic correspondent of the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC).
In the general election of 23 February 1950, he was elected as a Labour candidate / Co-operative Party in the constituency of Sheffield Hillsborough as an MP in the House of Commons after he had a candidate in the general election on November 14, 1935 without success in the constituency of Macclesfield. He belonged to the House of Commons up to the general election on 28 February 1974 for 24 years. In his first election he could clearly with 28,295 votes ( 58.7 percent), prevail against his rival candidate of the Conservative Party, Knowles Edge, which came to 19 613 votes ( 39.8 percent). In his subsequent re- elections he reached in each case an absolute majority and elections of 31 March 1966, 67.9 percent of his best result. In 1951 he was briefly Parliamentary private secretary to a minister of the government of Prime Minister Clement Attlee.
After the election of the Labour Party in the general election of October 15, 1964 Darling was, which was 1959-1960 Parliamentary Secretary ( Whip ) of the opposition Labour Group in the House of Commons, Prime Minister Harold Wilson as Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce ( Board of Trade ) called and held this function as one of the former trade minister 's closest collaborators ( President of the Board of Trade ) Douglas Jay until 1968. 1966 he was also appointed to the Privy Councillor and was temporarily President of the party responsible for compliance of weights and measures trading standards Institute (TSI ).
After retiring from the House of Darling, the 1970 was Vice President respectively in 1971 Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council was, by Letters Patent dated 3 July 1974 as a life peer with the title Baron Darling of Hillsborough, of Crewe in the County of Cheshire in ennobled. and as such was a member until his death in the House of Lords as a member.
Publications
- The Politics of Food, London 1941