Fred Mulley

Frederick "Fred" William Mulley, Baron Mulley of Manor Park PC ( born July 3, 1918 † 15 March 1995) was a British Labour Party politician.

Life

Mulley, son of a factory worker, attended the Bath Place Church of England School and a scholarship from the Warwick School. He then worked as a clerk in the Health Insurance Authority ( National Health Insurance Committee) in Warwickshire and entered into this time the union as a member. In 1936 he also became a member of the Labour Party. After he joined the British Army in 1939, he was captured and spent five years as a prisoner of war in Germany.

After his release from captivity, he returned to England, where he joined the University of Oxford, Philosophy, Politics and Economics studied on a scholarship at Christ Church College. By another scholarship, he completed postgraduate studies at Nuffield College and was subsequently 1948-1950 Research Assistant in Economics at St Catharine's College, University of Cambridge worked. He then studied law.

He began his political career when he was a candidate of the Labour Party was first elected in the general election of 23 February 1950 in the House of Commons and this represented the interests of the constituency Sheffield Park until June 9, 1983. After retiring from the House of Commons this constituency was dissolved. In 1951 he was Attlee Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister for work during the last months of the term of office of Prime Minister Clement.

In 1954 he was admitted as a lawyer to the bar of the Inner Temple. In addition, he represented 1958-1961 the interests of Great Britain in the Consultative Assembly of the Western European Union ( WEU) and was for a time Vice- President of the Union and its defense committee.

After the election of the Labour Party in the General Election 1964 Prime Minister Harold Wilson appointed him first in 1964 as Deputy Defense Minister and Defense Minister. Mulley, who in 1964 also became a member of the Privy Council, after 1965 Air Minister, before he was 1967-1969 Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for Disarmament. Last Mulley was in the Cabinet Wilson from October 1969 to June 1970 Transport Minister.

When the Labour Party after the general election of 28 February 1974, Harold Wilson once again could ask the Prime Minister, Mulley was in March 1974 again Minister of Transport. After reshuffling of the government he was then from June 1975 to September 1976 Minister for Education and Science ( Secretary of State for Education and Science), before he was defense minister in 1979, the government of Prime Minister James Callaghan last between September 1976 and May.

In June 1980 Mulley was chosen as the successor of Kai- Uwe von Hassel as President of the Consultative Assembly of the WEU.

After retiring from the House of Commons he was 1984 Life peer with the title of Baron Mulley of Manor Park knighted and was from then until his death, a member of the House of Lords.