Frank Soskice, Baron Stow Hill

Frank Soskice, Baron Stow Hill, PC ( * July 23, 1902; † 1 January 1979) was a British lawyer and politician ( Labour Party ) and 1965-1966 British Home Secretary.

Life

Frank Soskice attended St. Paul 's School in London and studied law at Balliol College, University of Oxford. At the First World War, he took part as a soldier in the British Army. In 1926 he was admitted as an attorney by the Honorable Society of the Inner Temple.

His son is the renowned economist and political scientist David Soskice.

Political career

Soskice 1945 was first elected to the British House of Commons as MP for the Labour Party. In the government of Prime Minister Clement Attlee, he served as Solicitor General ( comparable to a German Deputy Attorney General ) and briefly as a British delegate to the General Assembly of the United Nations. In 1951 he was Attorney General, 1952, he was a member of the shadow cabinet of the Labour Party.

In the Labour government of Harold Wilson Soskice 1964 Minister of the Interior. In his only year term, the first British Anti-Discrimination Act, the Race Relations Act of 1965, and the suspension of the death penalty in the UK falls ( initially limited to four years, later it was abolished under Home Secretary James Callaghan ). He became Lord Privy Seal, the British government in late 1965.

In 1966 he ended his government activity and was appointed as Baron Stow Hill of Newport, in the County of Monmouth, lifelong member of the British House of Lords.