James Peddie, Baron Peddie

James "Jim" Mortimer Peddie, Baron Peddie, of the City and County of Kingston upon Hull (* April 4, 1905, † April 13, 1978 ) was a British politician of the Co-operative Party, in 1961 as a life peer, due to the Life peerages Act 1958 a member of the House of Lords was.

Life

Peddie first became involved in the cooperative movement in Kingston upon Hull as press officer and as a director and during the Second World War Staff at the Ministry of Information ( Ministry of Information ), before he was director of the Cooperative Wholesale Society ( Co-operative Wholesale Society). He also was a member of the boards of Genossenschaftssversicherung ( The Co- operative Insurance ) and the housing cooperative ( Co-operative Permanent Building Society), from which today's Nationwide Building Society emerged, the UK's largest building society.

Peddie, a member of the Order of the British Empire was for his services, was 1957-1965 as the successor of Albert Ballard Chairman of the Co-operative Party, and at the same time in 1958 President of the Cooperative Congress. During this time, he sought close ties with the Labour Party and the Trades Union Congress, the umbrella organization of British unions.

By Letters Patent of February 9, 1961 Peddie was due to the Life peerages Act 1958 as Life peer with the title Baron Peddie, of the City and County of Kingston upon Hull raised to the peerage, and was thus until his death in the House of Lords than at Member.

Publications

• Taking stock. Dangers and opportunities, 1961

Background literature

• Cooperatives - Cooperative Activists: Co-Operative Party Politicians, Presidents of Co- operative Congress, 2012, ISBN 9781234706128