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Renee Soskin
Renee Rachel Soskin JP (''née'' Beloff; 16 December 1916 – 8 July 1998) was a British teacher, company director and Liberal Party politician. Background Soskin was daughter of merchant Semion (Simon) Beloff (born Semion Rubinowicz) and his wife Maria (Marie) Katzin, who were Russian Jews who had moved to England in 1903. She was one of five children. She was a younger sister to Max Beloff the historian and member of the House of Lords. She was older sister to John Beloff the psychologist. Her sister Anne later married German-born Nobel Prize–winning biochemist Ernst Boris Chain in 1948. Her paternal great-grandmother was Leah Horowitz-Winograd, the sister of Eliyahu Shlomo Horowitz-Winograd and a descendant of the Hasidic master, Shmelke Horowitz of Nikolsburg (1726–1778). She was educated at King Alfred School, London, and the Royal Academy of Music and trained for the stage. She married Moses G. Soskin. Professional career She was a speech and drama teacher. She wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renee Soskin
Renee Rachel Soskin JP (''née'' Beloff; 16 December 1916 – 8 July 1998) was a British teacher, company director and Liberal Party politician. Background Soskin was daughter of merchant Semion (Simon) Beloff (born Semion Rubinowicz) and his wife Maria (Marie) Katzin, who were Russian Jews who had moved to England in 1903. She was one of five children. She was a younger sister to Max Beloff the historian and member of the House of Lords. She was older sister to John Beloff the psychologist. Her sister Anne later married German-born Nobel Prize–winning biochemist Ernst Boris Chain in 1948. Her paternal great-grandmother was Leah Horowitz-Winograd, the sister of Eliyahu Shlomo Horowitz-Winograd and a descendant of the Hasidic master, Shmelke Horowitz of Nikolsburg (1726–1778). She was educated at King Alfred School, London, and the Royal Academy of Music and trained for the stage. She married Moses G. Soskin. Professional career She was a speech and drama teacher. She wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bedfordshire South (UK Parliament Constituency)
South Bedfordshire was a county constituency in Bedfordshire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system. The constituency was created for the 1950 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election. Boundaries and boundary changes 1950–1974: The constituency was created by the Representation of the People Act 1948 as a County Constituency, comprising the Municipal Borough of Dunstable, the Urban District of Leighton Buzzard, the Municipal Borough of Luton wards of Leagrave and Limbury, and the Rural District of Luton. Leighton Buzzard and surrounding rural areas were transferred from Mid Bedfordshire, and the Leagrave and Limbury wards of Luton, together with Dunstable and surrounding rural areas from the abolished Luton Division of Bedfordshire. 1974–1983 (Second Periodic Review of Westminster Constituencies): The Municipal Borough of Dunstable, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People Educated At King Alfred School, London
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Liberal Party (UK) Parliamentary Candidates
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1998 Deaths
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1916 Births
Events Below, the events of the First World War have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 1 – The British Empire, British Royal Army Medical Corps carries out the first successful blood transfusion, using blood that had been stored and cooled. * January 9 – WWI: Gallipoli Campaign: The last British troops are evacuated from Gallipoli, as the Ottoman Empire prevails over a joint British and French operation to capture Constantinople. * January 10 – WWI: Erzurum Offensive: Russia defeats the Ottoman Empire. * January 12 – The Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, part of the British Empire, is established in present-day Tuvalu and Kiribati. * January 13 – WWI: Battle of Wadi (1916), Battle of Wadi: Ottoman Empire forces defeat the British, during the Mesopotamian campaign in modern-day Iraq. * January 29 – WWI: Paris is bombed by German Empire, German zeppelins. * January 31 – WWI: An attack is planned on Verdun, France. February * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Whitaker (politician)
Benjamin Charles George Whitaker CBE (15 September 1934 – 8 June 2014) was a British barrister and Labour Party (UK), Labour Party politician. Early life He was the third son of Major-General Sir John Whitaker, 2nd Baronet, Sir John Albert Charles Whitaker, 2nd Baronet of Babworth, Babworth Hall, Retford, Nottinghamshire. He was educated at Eton College, Eton before undergoing a period of Conscription in the United Kingdom, National Service as an officer in the Coldstream Guards from 1952 to 1954. He subsequently entered New College, Oxford where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts, BA in Modern History before being call to the bar, called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1959. Career He practised as a barrister from 1959, and as an extramural lecturer in law for the University of London from 1963. He was elected at the 1966 United Kingdom general election, 1966 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for the normally Conservative Party (UK), Conservative seat of Hampstead ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1966 United Kingdom General Election
The 1966 United Kingdom general election was held on 31 March 1966. The result was a landslide victory for the Labour Party led by incumbent Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Wilson decided to call a snap election since his government, elected a mere 17 months previously, in 1964, had an unworkably small majority of only four MPs. The Labour government was returned following this snap election with a much larger majority of 98 seats. This was the last general election in which the voting age was 21; Wilson's government passed an amendment to the Representation of the People Act in 1969 to include eligibility to vote at age 18, which was in place for the next general election in 1970. Background Prior to the 1966 general election, Labour had performed poorly in local elections in 1965, and lost a by-election, cutting their majority to just two. Shortly after the local elections, the leader of the Conservative Party Alec Douglas-Home was replaced by Edward Heath in the 1965 lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke Of Cumnor
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor (9 April 1903 – 29 March 1984) was a British Conservative Party politician who served as Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster-General from 1961 to 1962 and — following the "Night of the Long Knives" — as Home Secretary from 1962 to 1964. Early life and education Brooke was born in Oxford, the son of artist Leonard Leslie Brooke and Sybil Diana Brooke, daughter of Irish Chaplain Stopford Augustus Brooke. He was educated at Marlborough College, where he was a classmate of Rab Butler, and Balliol College, Oxford. He had an elder brother, 2nd Lt. Leonard Stopford Brooke, who was killed in Germany in 1918 while serving with the Army Cyclist Corps. Political career After teaching philosophy at Balliol College for a year, Brooke worked at a Quaker settlement for the unemployed in the Rhondda Valley from 1927 to 1928. This experience led him to turn down the offer of a Fellowship in philosophy at Balliol in favour of a lifetime in po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Hamlet Johnson
Walter Hamlet Johnson (21 November 1917 – 12 April 2003) was a British Labour Party politician. Early life Johnson was born in Hertford. Political career Before being elected, Johnson stood several times for Parliament without success. In the 1955 General Election he fought Bristol West, but was defeated by the Conservative Cabinet Minister Walter Mockton. He contested South Bedfordshire in 1959, and a by-election at Acton in 1968 that was one of three Labour seats lost that day (in Johnson's case to the future Cabinet Minister Kenneth Baker). Following the retirement of Philip Noel-Baker as the Member of Parliament, Johnson retained Derby South at the 1970 general election for the Labour Party, and was an assistant government whip from 1974 to 1975. He stood down as an MP at the 1983, after which he was succeeded by Margaret Beckett. Johnson was partly funded by the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association. He was treasurer of that Association from 1965 to 1977. De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Cole (politician)
Norman John Cole (1 June 1909 – 22 January 1979) was a British Conservative and National Liberal Member of Parliament. He represented South Bedfordshire from 1951 to 1966, when the seat was taken by Labour candidate Gwilym Roberts Gwilym Edffrwd Roberts (7 August 1928 – 15 March 2018) was a British Labour Party politician, who was Member of Parliament for South Bedfordshire from 1966 to 1970, and for Cannock from February 1974 to 1983. Early life Roberts was educated .... Political career During his time as an MP Cole introduced a private members bill which eventually culminated in the Child and Young Persons (Amendment) Act 1952.Hansard, House of Lords, Fifth Series, Vol. 177, Col. 579, 1 July 1952 References * External links * 1909 births 1979 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1951–1955 UK MPs 1955–1959 UK MPs 1959–1964 UK MPs 1964–1966 {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1900s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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