Walter Monslow, Baron Monslow

Walter Monslow, Baron Monslow, of Barrow in Furness in the County Palatine of Lancaster (* January 26, 1895 in Wrexham, † October 12, 1966 ) was a British trade union official and Labour Party politician, who more than twenty years a Member of the House of Commons was in 1966 was as a life peer, due to the Life peerages Act 1958 a member of the House of Lords.

Life

Monslow worked after school as a train driver with British Railways and was also involved as an official in the union of the engineer and fireman ASLEF (Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen ), the organizational secretary he was. In the general election of July 5, 1945, he was first elected as a Labour candidate for the Members in the House of Commons and represented in this for over twenty years up to the general election on 31 March 1966 constituency Barrow-in- Furness.

During the tenure of Prime Minister Clement Attlee, he became in 1949 first Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of Civil Aviation (Minister of Civil Aviation ) Frank Pakenham before after from February 1950 to the end of Attlee's tenure in October 1951 Parliamentary Private Secretary to Minister of Food (Minister he of Food ) Maurice Webb was.

After his retirement from the House of Commons, he was raised by a Letters Patent of June 15, 1966 due to the Life peerages Act 1958 as Life peer with the title Baron Monslow, of Barrow in Furness in the County Palatine of Lancaster to the peerage. Its introduction ( Introduction) in the upper house was on the side of Arthur Champion, Champion Baron and Charles Royle, Baron Royle on 13 July 1966. He was so until his death just under three months later to the House of Lords as a member.