Charles Hobson, Baron Hobson

Charles Rider Hobson, Baron Hobson of Brent in the County of Middlesex (* February 18, 1903, † February 17, 1966 ) was a British Labour Party politician, who for fourteen years a Member of the House of Commons and was in 1964 as a Life Peer due to the Life peerages Act 1958 a member of the House of Lords was.

Life

Hobson graduated after attending the Belle Vue Road School in Leeds to study and was after the end of 1927-1945 as an engineer at a power plant, and more than thirty years a member of the Union of Engineers Amalgamated Engineering Union ( AEU ). His political career began in 1931 in local politics when it was first elected as a member of the City Council of Willesden and this remained until 1945.

After 1945 it was briefly Deputy ( Alderman ) in Willesden, he was first elected as a candidate of the Labour Partybei the first general election after the Second World War, on July 5, 1945 Member in the House of Commons and took there first the constituency Wembley North and then since the general election of 23 February 1950 until the elections on 18 September 1959 Keighley constituency.

1947 Hobson was Prime Minister Clement Attlee as the successor of Wilfrid Burke as Deputy Postmaster General ( Assistant Postmaster General ) appointed and served in this capacity as closest collaborator of the then Postmaster ( Postmaster General of the United Kingdom) Wilfred Paling and Ness Edwards until the defeat of the Labour Party. Later he served in the lower House elections on October 25, 1951 1955-1958 for the first time as Vice Chairman of the Joint authority for East Africa (Joint East Africa Board).

By Letters Patent of January 20, 1964 Hobson was raised as a life peer with the title Baron Hobson of Brent in the County of Middlesex in the peerage, and was until his death two years later a member of the House of Lords. Since 1964, he held after the victory of the Labour Party at the general election of 15 October 1964 until his death as Lord -in- Waiting the function of a Parliamentary manager ( Whip ) of the Government Group in the House of Lords. He was also from 1964 to 1965 again vice chairman of the Joint East Africa Board.