Ian Winterbottom, Baron Winterbottom

Ian Winterbottom, Baron Winterbottom ( born April 6, 1913 † July 4, 1992 ) was a British Labour Party politician.

He was elected in 1950 in the general elections of the United Kingdom as a member of the House of Commons ( HoC ) for Nottingham Central, a constituency which the Labour Party Member Geoffrey de Freitas (MP) had given up for the promising parliamentary seat of Lincoln.

He retained his parliamentary seat at the 1951 general election, held by a majority of only 139 votes, but lost him in the election in 1955 to the Conservative candidate John Cordeaux. He joined in 1959 again to the general elections in Nottingham Central to, but again won Cordeaux, who held his seat with an even wider majority.

Ian Winterbottom did not occur again in the elections in 1964, when the Labour government under Harold Wilson came to power again. However, he was appointed as Baron Winterbottom of Clopton in the County of Northampton for a life peer in 1965. Following the Labour victory in 1966, he joined the Labour government, in which he as a Secretary of State for the Navy ( Royal Navy ) until 1967, as Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Public Building and Works from 1967 to 1968 and finally as a sub - Secretary of State for Air Force ( RAF ) from 1968 until the defeat of the Labour government in 1970 worked.

He died in 1992 at the age of 79 years.