Michael Winstanley, Baron Winstanley
Michael Platt Winstanley, Baron Winstanley of Urmston in Greater Manchester MRCS LRCP ( born August 27, 1918 in Nantwich, Cheshire; † July 18, 1993 ) was a British physician, presenter and politician of the Liberal Party, the number of years a Member of the House of Commons was, and in 1976 was as a life peer, due to the Life peerages Act 1958 a member of the House of Lords.
Life
Doctor and Moderator
Winstanley graduated after school to study medicine. After the Second World War he was 1945 the first surgeon in the hospital Wigan and then in 1946 after his promotion to lieutenant surgeon at the Royal Army Medical Corps ( RAMC ), the Medical Corps of the British Army before he is in 1948-1966 as a Practitioner Urmston settled. In addition, at the same time was 1950-1966 and the company doctor of the Royal munitions factory ( Royal Ordnance Factory) in Patricroft, and at the same time from 1953 to 1966 surgeon of the Treasury (HM Treasury ) and the Admiralty ( Admiralty ).
In addition to his medical practice Winstanley worked until his death as a presenter of radio and television broadcasts from 1957 and was especially by the emitted when the Independent Television channel Granada Television show This Is Your Right, in which it dealt with issues relating to consumer protection. Furthermore authored 1964-1965 columns on cricket for the daily newspaper The Manchester Evening News.
House of Commons Member of Parliament and the House of Lords member
In the general election on May 31, 1966 Winstanley was first elected as an MP in the House of Commons in the constituency of Cheadle, where he is doing against the previous constituency owner of the Conservative Party, William Shepherd, just with 32 071 votes ( 42.4 percent) to 31 416 voices prevailed ( 41.5 percent). Although he was able to improve ( 44.3 percent) in the subsequent elections on 18 June 1970 to 37 974 votes, he defeated his challenger by the Tories, Tom Normanton, of ( 46.3 percent) came and Winstanley on 39 728 votes thus lost his parliamentary seat. Between 1970 and 1976 he wrote again a weekly column for the Manchester Evening News.
In the elections of 28 February 1974, he was elected in the newly created constituency of Hazel Grove again as an MP in the House of Commons. This time he won with 26,966 votes ( 46.3 percent) against the candidate of the Conservative Party, Tom Arnold, 24,968 votes ( 42.9 per cent) together account for. However, Winstanley also lost this constituency already back in the subsequent election on 10 October 1974 whereby Arnold now with 25 012 votes ( 44.9 percent ) won, while Winstanley 22,181 votes ( 39.8 percent) suffered severe setbacks. During this eight-month membership Parliament, he served as Parliamentary Secretary ( Whip ) the Group of the Liberal Party in the House.
For his many years of service Winstanley was raised by a Letters Patent dated 23 January 1976 as a life peer with the title Baron Winstanley of Urmston in Greater Manchester to the peerage, and was until his death in the House of Lords as a member.
Baron Winstanley was also the 1978-1980 Chair of the so-called Countryside Commission, a committee for managing the National Parks in England and Wales, and from 1986 until his death Deputy Pro- Chancellor of Lancaster University, founded in 1964.
Publications
- The Anatomy of First Aid, Daily Mirror, 1966