Frank Bowles, Baron Bowles
Francis "Frank" George Bowles, Baron Bowles, of Nuneaton in the County of Warwick (* May 2, 1902, † 29 December 1970 ) was a British lawyer and Labour Party politician, who for 22 years Member of the House of Commons was and 1964 as a result of the Life peerages Life peer Act 1958 a member of the House of Lords was.
Life
Solicitor and unsuccessful House of candidatures
Bowles, whose father Horace Edgar Bowles was a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry, started after seeing the Highgate School in Highgate study law at University College London, from which he graduated in 1923 with a Bachelor of Laws ( LL.B. ). After 1925, he received his legal admission he worked 1925-1947 as a Solicitor of the Pearl Assurance Company. He also studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science ( LSE), which he finished in 1926 with a Bachelor of Science ( B.Sc.).
Bowles, in 1924 a member of the Labour Party candidate in the general election of May 30, 1929 October 27, 1931 and November 14, 1935 in the constituency of Hackney North and in a by-election ( By-election ) in the constituency of Preston on November 25, 1936 each unsuccessfully for elected to the House of Commons.
Lower house MP and Upper House MP
After Reginald Fletcher on February 4, 1942 resigned from the House after his appointment as 1st Baron Winster, Witherslack of in the County of Westmorland, Bowles was as his successor in a special election on March 9, 1942 at Nuneaton constituency for the first time as a delegate the House of Commons and was elected to this after six re- elections until his voluntary renunciation mandate on 31 December 1964.
During his parliamentary membership he was in November 1946, first Deputy Leader of the Labour Group in the House of Commons ( Parliamentariary Labour Party ), before following the resignation of Hubert Beaumont in October 1948 Deputy Speaker ( Deputy Speaker) of the House, Deputy Chairman of Committees and Deputy Chairman the Committee on ways and Means ( Deputy Chairman of ways and Means ) was. These functions he held until his replacement by Charles MacAndrew in February 1950.
Shortly before his retirement from the House of Bowles was raised by a Letters Patent of December 12, 1964 due to the Life peerages Act 1958 as life peer with the title Baron Bowles, of Nuneaton in the County of Warwick in the peerage and thus belonged to his death at the House of Lords as a member. During his membership in the House of Lords, he was from 1964 Deputy until the defeat of the Labour Party at the general election on June 18, 1970 Parliamentary General Manager of the Government fraction ( Deputy Chief Government Whip ) and also captain of the bodyguard of the British Queen ( Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard ).
His mandate waiver allowed, that the then Technology Minister in the cabinet of Prime Minister Harold Wilson, Frank Cousins , was elected in the subsequently necessary by -election in the constituency Nuneaton on January 21, 1965 the House of Representatives.