Eric Fletcher, Baron Fletcher
Eric George Molyneux Fletcher, Baron Fletcher, of Islington in Greater London Kt PC ( * March 26, 1903; † 9 June 1990) is a British Labour Party politician, who for 25 years Member of the House of Commons was in 1970 was due to the Life peerages Act 1958 as Life peer member of the House of Lords was.
Life
Solicitor and Member of Parliament House of Commons
Fletcher, whose father was town clerk of Islington, completed after the visit of Radley College to study law at the University of London. After graduation he was employed as a solicitor since 1925 and since 1940 as a partner in the approved to the Bar by Gray 's Inn law firm Denton Hall & Burgin, specializing in questions of international law and private international law. In addition, he wrote his books on constitutional theory of Albert Venn Dicey as well as short biographies of the polymath John Selden and the monk Benedict Biscop.
His political career began in the mid-1930s in local politics when he was elected a member of the London County Council ( LCC) in 1934, and at that until 1949 the constituency of Islington South represented.
In the lower house elections on July 5, 1945 Fletcher was first elected as a Labour candidate in the constituency of Islington East as a deputy in the House of Commons, where he managed to beat the previous constituency owner of the Conservative Party Thelma Cazalet - Keir significantly. While Thelma Cazalet - Keir 9960 votes and 34.5 percent received, and thus compared to the election on November 14, 1935 lost 18 percentage points, Fletcher reached 18,936 votes and 65.5 percent. On April 5, 1949, he was named one of the members of the Commission for Public Loans Work Act 1946 for a four year term of office until April 1, 1953.
In the following elections he won significant absolute majorities in the House and belonged to the lower house elections on June 18, 1970 almost 25 years on. In 1962, he was also a member of the Church of England Assembly.
Ministers and the House of Lords member
After the election of the Labour Party in the general election of October 15, 1964 Fletcher (Minister without portfolio) was Prime Minister Harold Wilson as Minister without Portfolio appointed. Once there was a reshuffle after the elections of March 31, 1966, he resigned from the Cabinet and was instead on April 21, 1966 Deputy House Speaker ( Deputy Speaker), and also the chairman of the influential Committee on Ways and Means (Chairman of Ways and Means ). In 1967 he was also Privy Councillor (PC).
After retiring from the House of Fletcher was and by a Letters Patent dated 9 July 1970 as a life peer with the title Baron Fletcher, of Islington in Greater London, member of the House of Lords and was this until his death to the day 19 years eleven months on. Its introduction ( Introduction) took place on July 16, 1970 with the support of Gerald Gardiner, Baron Gardiner and Frank Soskice, Baron Stow Hill.
At times he also served as a member of the Senate of the University of London as well as a Governor of the London School of Economics and Political Science ( LSE) and Birkbeck College. In addition, he was Vice - Chairman of the film production company British International Pictures.
Publications
- The Carrier 's Liability. Thesis, Etc., London 1932
- The Students' Conflict of Laws: Being an Introduction to the Study of Private International Law, based on Dicey, co-author Leslie Burgin, Stevens and Sons, Limited, 1934
- John Selden, 1584-1654, 1969
- Benedict Biscop, J. & P. Bealls, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1981