Gordon Macdonald, 1st Baron Macdonald of Gwaenysgor

Gordon Macdonald, 1st Baron Macdonald of Gwaenysgor PC ( born May 27, 1888 in Gwaenysgor, Prestatyn, Flintshire, North Wales, Wales, † January 20, 1966 ) was a British Labour Party politician, the last one of the Chairmen of the British Government Commission and de facto governor of Newfoundland and Paymaster General was.

Life

Miner, trade unionist and Member of Parliament House of Commons

Macdonald, son of a Scottish miner and a Welsh mother, began after attending the primary school in 1901 at the age of thirteen years, also working as a miner in a mine in Ashton-in- Makerfield. With financial support through a scholarship, however, he was able to complete a course of study at Ruskin College.

In 1920 he was elected to Wigan a member of the so-called Board of Guardians, a body that for the implementation and review of the 1834 Poor Law introduced ( Poor Law Amendment Act 1834) has been established. He then in 1934 was first chairman of the cooperative in Wigan and shortly after an official of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), the British Union of Mineworkers.

In the general election of May 30, 1929 Macdonald was first elected as a Labour candidate for member of the House of Commons and represented there by 9 July 1942 Constituency Ince. During his membership of Parliament, he was 1931-1934 Whip of the Labour Group in the House of Commons. After he had renounced in July 1942 to his seat on the House of Commons, he was an employee at the Ministry of Fuel and Energy (Ministry of Fuel and Power) and there competent regional inspector for Lancashire, Cheshire and North Wales.

Paymaster General and member of the House of Lords

After the Second World War he was in January 1946 past chairman of the British Government Commission of Newfoundland and managed the accession of Newfoundland to the Canadian Confederation in 1949 in this function.

Subsequently, he was from 1949 to 1951 Paymaster General ( Paymaster General ) in the expanded cabinet of Prime Minister Clement Attlee. In 1949, he was raised as Baron with the title of 1st Baron Macdonald of Gwaensygor to the nobility and was a member as such until his death in the House of Lords as a member. During this, he represented Great Britain at several international conferences such as at the General Assembly of the United Nations at Lake Success.

1952 Macdonald was, who spoke fluent welsh, as a representative of Wales member of the BBC Board of Governors and Board of Directors was this the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1960. He was also from 1953 to his death in 1966 and Chairman of the Council for Wales, a panel of the BBC, which take into account the interests and desires of the listeners and television viewers in Wales and the BBC should recite. In addition, he was active 1952-1959 in the Colonial Development Corporation (CDC ), an organization in the field of development aid in the British colonies.

In addition, honorary doctorates from Mount Allison University and the University of Wales he was awarded. After his death, was succeeded by his son of the same Gordon Macdonald as the second Baron Macdonald of Gwaenysgor.

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