Paling
Paling is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Chris Paling (born 1956), British author of modern fiction * Wilfred Paling (1883–1971), British Labour Party politician * William Paling William Thomas Paling (28 October 1892 – 10 April 1992) was a British Labour Party politician. Born in Marehay, Ripley, Derbyshire, Paling was the son of George Paling, a coalminer, from Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. At the age of 14 h ...

Chris Paling
Chris Paling (born 1956) is a British author of modern fiction. Biography Born in 1956 in Derby, Paling studied social sciences at the University of Sussex. He started working as a studio manager for BBC radio in 1981. In the early 1990s he had a Thirty Minute Theatre play called ''Way Station'' produced on BBC Radio 4. He wrote more radio plays and later began writing novels. ''After the Raid'' (1995), a wartime study of a shattered mind, was closely followed by ''Deserters'' (1996) and ''Morning All Day'' (1997). Paling feared ''The Silent Sentry'' (1999), about a radio producer who cracks up, might be "the longest resignation letter in history", but he remains a Radio 4 producer to this day. ''Newton's Swing'' (2000) was a subtle Stateside thriller; ''The Repentant Morning'' (2003) is set in London and Spain in 1936; ''A Town by the Sea'' (2005) is a departure from his previous style, leading the reader through a strange landscape of unfamiliar people and places. ''Minding'' ( ...
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Wilfred Paling
Wilfred Paling (7 April 1883 – 17 April 1971) was a British Labour Party politician. He was born at Marehay, near Ripley, Derbyshire, one of eight children of a coalminer. Paling left Ripley Elementary School at the age of 13, and entered casual employment with local plumbing and building companies. When the family moved to Huthwaite in Nottinghamshire he started work in New Hucknall Colliery, also attending night classes organised by the Workers Educational Association in politics, economics and trade union history. He subsequently won a scholarship to study mining at University College Nottingham. Returning to the Nottinghamshire Coalfield, he became an official in the local miners' federation and a member of the Independent Labour Party. In 1912 he left Nottinghamshire as his union and political activities meant that he could not find employment in the area. He moved to the West Riding of Yorkshire to work at Bullcroft Colliery near Doncaster. He was soon after elected ...
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