John Jacques, Baron Jacques

John Henry Jacques, Jacques Baron, of Portsea Iceland in the County of Southampton ( born January 11, 1905 in Ashington, Northumberland; † December 20, 1995 in Portsmouth ) was a British businessman and politician of the Co-operative Party, the 1968 Life peer due to the Life peerages Act 1958 a member of the House of Lords was.

Life

Jacques graduated after attending school with financial support through a scholarship to study at the Co-operative College in Manchester and then in 1925 was Executive Secretary of the Moorsley Society, before he in 1929 after a meantime acquired a degree in Commercial Management as a tutor at the Co-operative College in Manchester returned and taught there until 1942. After the cooperative movement ( Co - operative Society ) in Plymouth between 1942 and 1945 was an accountant, he served 1945-1965 as Chief Executive Officer ( CEO) of the Co - operative Society of Portsea Iceland. During this time, he was from 1951 to 1975 and Justice of the Peace ( Magistrate ) of Portsmouth.

Furthermore acted Jacques, President of the Congress of the cooperative movement in 1961, 1964-1970 as chairman of the cooperative movement ( Co-operative Union).

By Letters Patent of July 11, 1968 Jacques was raised due to the Life peerages Act 1958 as Life peer with the title Baron Jacques of Portsea Iceland in the County of Southampton in the peerage and thus belonged to his death in the House of Lords as Member of. In the following years he was 1971-1975 President of the Council on Education of retail (Retail Trades Education Council ).

On March 14, 1974, he was also of Queen Elizabeth II, along with Charles Garnsworthy, Baron Garnsworthy, Reginald Wells- Pestell, Baron Wells- Pestell and Alma Birk, Baroness Birk to the Lord -in- Waiting of the Royal Household (HM Household ) appointed. As such, he was so Parliamentary Secretary (Government Whip ) of the ruling Labour Group in the House of Lords and exercised this function while the governments of the Labour Party under Prime Ministers Harold Wilson and James Callaghan between 1974 and 1977, and again for a short time in 1979. In addition, was Baron Jacques 1977-1985 Deputy Chairman of Committees of the House of Lords ( Deputy Chairman of Committees of the House of Lords ).