Roy Mason
Roy Mason, Baron Mason of Barnsley PC ( born April 18, 1924 in Royston, South Yorkshire, England ) is a British Labour Party politician.
Life
Mason dropped out of school at age 14 and worked as a miner before the end of the 1940s was official with the Union of Mineworkers National Union of Mineworkers (NUM). He also graduated with a scholarship from the Trades Union Congress to study at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
His political career began when he was a candidate of the Labour Party on March 31, 1953 at a by-election for the first time deputies in the lower house (House of Commons ) was chosen and in this first until 1983 the constituency represented Barnsley. Most recently, he was after the general election of June 9, 1983 to 1987 Member of Parliament for the constituency of Barnsley Central.
After the election of the Labour Party at the general election in 1964 he was first in the government of Prime Minister Harold Wilson, Minister of State for Shipping in the Ministry of Commerce ( Board of Trade ) and after a short stint from April to July 1968 as Postmaster General finally from July 1968 to October 1969 Minister of State for energy. Most recently he was from October 1969 to July 1970 as President of the Board of Trade, Commerce Minister in the Cabinet Wilson.
In 1971 he was a member of the Assemblies of Europe and the Western European Union ( WEU)
When the Labour Party after the general election of 28 February 1974, Wilson again could ask the Prime Minister, Minister of Defence was Mason in his cabinet.
Following the appointment of Wilson's successor, James Callaghan as Prime Minister he was in the government reorganization on September 10, 1976 Northern Ireland minister and succeeds Merlyn Rees, the new Minister of the Interior was. During his tenure as Northern Ireland Secretary, it came to further implement the termination of the so-called Special Category Status and the relocation of formerly by this state respected members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army as Kieran Nugent in the Maze Prison in September 1976. Through Nugent came the resurgence of Blanket protest by the IRA members refused to wear prison clothes, since this is not considered as ordinary criminals but as political prisoners.
The Office of the Northern Ireland Minister held Mason to the electoral victory of the Conservative Party under Margaret Thatcher at the general election of May 3, 1979.
After retiring from the House, he was awarded on 20 October 1987 as Baron Mason of Barnsley, the dignity of a Life Peer and Mason so that a member of the House of Lords.
Publications
- Coal and the Common Market, London 1971
- Paying the price, autobiography, 1999, ISBN 9780709063681