Cyril Hamnett, Baron Hamnett

Cyril Hamnett, Baron Hamnett, of Warrington in the County Palatine of Lancaster (* July 6, 1906; † 17 March 1980) was a British trade union official, journalist and Labour Party politician, who in 1970 due to the Life peerages Act 1958 as Life Peer member of the House of Lords was.

Life

Hamnett graduated after school education and training at the Manchester Technical School and worked as a journalist and editor at the Journal of the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers. He was also to 1933, secretary of the Independent Labour Party (ILP ) in Manchester. Later he became involved as a member of the Central Executive Committee and the Parliamentary Committee of the cooperative movement ( Co-operative Union). In addition, he was Vice - Chairman of the press organs of movement ( Co-operative Press)

He stood as a candidate in the general election on February 23, 1950 and on October 25, 1951 for the Labour Party in the constituency Knutsford without success for a parliamentary seat in the House of Commons, but was defeated in each case significantly Walter Bromley - Davenport, of the constituency 1945-1970 won for the Conservative Party. Also in the election on May 26, 1955 subject Hamnett, who was now president of the Labour Party in Manchester, in the constituency Knutsford the constituency owner Bromley - Davenport with 19,486 votes.

For his many years of service within the cooperative movement Hamnett was a Letters Patent of July 6, 1970 due to the Life peerages Act 1958 as life peer with the title Baron Hamnett, of Warrington in the County Palatine of Lancaster member of the House of Lords and was this to to his death.

Publications

• The History and Purpose of Federations, Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers, 1948