Bert Hazell

Bert Hazell ( born April 18, 1907 in Attleborough, Norfolk, in York † 11 January 2009), also known as Bertie Hazell, was a British trade union leader and Labour Party politician.

Hazell was born in 1907 in Attleborough, Norfolk, the son of a farm laborer. At the age of 14 he dropped out of school to work in the Park Farm, a farm in Wymondham. His activities there was one among others, the startle of crows. In his time as an MP Hazell should still often allude in respect of their work in Parliament it. Due to the poor conditions for farm workers and their families who had deteriorated even further in the wake of the First World War and led to the Norfolk farm workers strike of 1923, Hazell began to get involved in the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers. When in 1933 the Park Farm its changed hands, Hazell was subsequently dismissed because of his Engagementes. Hazell was now working for the Labour Party in Norfolk.

In the years 1945 and 1950 ran unsuccessfully for the party for a seat in the House. It was not until October 1964 there Geland to be elected him in the House of Commons, where he served until 1970 as MP for the constituency " North Norfolk ". In the House Hazell 1965 was the first Member of Parliament, who addressed the problem of coastal erosion. In 1984 he was awarded an honorary doctorate at the University of York.

Since the death of David Renton, Baron Renton May 2007 Hazell was the oldest living former parliament of the United Kingdom.

Hazell was married since 1936 with Dora Barham († 1987) and had a daughter. In 1946 he was Member ( MBE ) of the Order of the British Empire, 1962, Commander ( CBE).