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Sir Harry Hylton-Foster
Sir Harry Braustyn Hylton Hylton-Foster (10 April 1905 – 2 September 1965), was a British Conservative Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1950 until his death in 1965. He was also the Speaker of the House of Commons for the final six years of his life. Early life Hylton-Foster was born in Surrey, his father was a barrister, and he was educated at Eton College before reading jurisprudence at Magdalen College, Oxford, in which he graduated with a first-class degree. He was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1928, at which time he was also working as a legal secretary for Robert Finlay, 1st Viscount Finlay. Military service During the Second World War, Hylton-Foster served in the Royal Air Force volunteer reserve. He also served as a deputy judge advocate, a military judge, in North Africa. Political career After the end of the war, he stood as the Conservative candidate for the Shipley seat in the 1945 general election, but was unsuccess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Right Honourable
''The Right Honourable'' (abbreviation: ''Rt Hon.'' or variations) is an honorific Style (form of address), style traditionally applied to certain persons and collective bodies in the United Kingdom, the former British Empire and the Commonwealth of Nations. The term is predominantly used today as a style associated with the holding of certain senior public offices in the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, and to a lesser extent, Australia. ''Right'' in this context is an adverb meaning 'very' or 'fully'. Grammatically, ''The Right Honourable'' is an adjectival phrase which gives information about a person. As such, it is not considered correct to apply it in direct address, nor to use it on its own as a title in place of a name; but rather it is used in the Grammatical person, third person along with a name or noun to be modified. ''Right'' may be abbreviated to ''Rt'', and ''Honourable'' to ''Hon.'', or both. ''The'' is sometimes dropped in written abbreviated form, but is al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Corlett (politician)
John Corlett (10 October 1884 – 18 January 1968) was a British Labour Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1945 to 1950 as the Member of Parliament for York York is a cathedral city with Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. It is the historic county town of Yorkshire. The city has many historic buildings and other structures, such as a .... Life Corlett was educated at the University of London, where he received a PhD. He became a divisional organiser for the National Union of Teachers, and stood unsuccessfully for the Labour Party in Stretford (UK Parliament constituency), Stretford at the 1923 United Kingdom general election. He became the MP for York during the 1945 United Kingdom general election, 1945 election in which Labour won with a landslide, winning the seat for Labour for the first time in 14 years with a 4,072 vote majority. His successor as the York Constituency candidate, Hayd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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