Reginald Sorensen, Baron Sorensen

Reginald William Sorensen, Baron Sorensen of Leyton in the County of Essex ( born June 19, 1891 † October 8, 1971 ) was a British clergyman of the Free Unitarian Church and Labour Party politician, who for 32 years with interruptions Member of the House of Commons was and 1964 was as a life peer, due to the Life peerages Act 1958 a member of the House of Lords.

Life

Sorensen, son of a silversmith, was 1916-1937 worked as a Unitarian minister in the congregation of the Free Unitarian Church in Walthamstow.

After a candidate in the general election on 6 December 1923, the Labour Party in the constituency of Southampton without success for a parliamentary seat in the House, he engaged for a short time from 1924 to 1925 as a member of the Council of the County of Essex in local politics.

In the general election on May 30, 1929 Sorensen was first elected as an MP in the House of Commons and took there the constituency of Leyton West, before this already in the subsequent election of October 27, 1931 back to the candidate of the Conservative Party, Wilfrid Sugden, lost. After a candidate in a by-election ( By-election ) in the constituency of Lowestoft on February 15, 1934 without success for a lower house seat, succeeded him in the general election on 14 November 1935 win against Wilfrid Sugden and recover in the lower house. This time, he represented the constituency of Leyton West to the resolution of this constituency to 3 February 1950. During this time he supported in 1938 with Arthur Creech Jones, who was also a Labour MP in the House of Commons, activities of West African Students ' Union ( WASU ) in the Gold Coast colony.

Sorensen was again elected in the general election on February 23, 1950 in the newly created constituency of Leyton to MPs in the House of Commons, to which he belonged in 1965 fifteen more years until his voluntary mandate resignation on February 21.

Shortly before his retirement from the House of Commons Sorensen was raised by a Letters Patent of December 15, 1964 due to the Life peerages Act 1958 as life peer with the title Baron Sorensen of Leyton in the County of Essex in the peerage, and was as such to up his death, the House of Lords as a member. During his membership in the upper house was Baron Sorensen between 1965 and his replacement by Beatrice Serota, Baroness Serota 1968 Lord -in- Waiting to Queen Elizabeth II.