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Union Of Liberal Students
The Union of Liberal Students (ULS) was the England and Wales, English and Welsh student wing of the United Kingdom's Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party. The Scottish Liberal Party had a separate organisation, Scottish Liberal Students. ULS was founded in 1920 as the Union of University Liberal Societies and merged with the student wing of the UK Social Democratic Party (UK), Social Democratic Party when the parent parties merged. Together with the party's youth wing, the National League of Young Liberals (NLYL or Young Liberals), the organisations made up the Young Liberal Movement. In 1990, the two organisations themselves merged to form Liberal Democrat Youth and Students (LDYS). In Spring 2008, it was renamed Liberal Youth, and in December 2016 as Young Liberals (United Kingdom), Young Liberals. ULS was a member of both IFLRY and LYMEC. List of national chairs of the Union of Liberal Students *Paul Farthing (1988-89) *Alun Evans (1987–88) *Sheila Cunliffe (1986–87) *Harri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young Liberals (United Kingdom)
Young Liberals is the youth and student organisation of the British Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Democrats. Membership is automatic for members of the Liberal Democrats aged 25 and under, whilst those between the ages of 26 - 30 are able to opt-in free of charge. It organises a number of fringe events at the Liberal Democrat Conference, which is held twice each year. Young Liberals exists to campaign on issues affecting young people and students, with branches across the UK. The organisation is run by young people and acts as a Advocacy group, pressure group within the Liberal Democrats. Social liberalism, economic liberalism, social justice, internationalism (politics), internationalism and pro-Europeanism are important components of the group's political philosophy. The constitution of the Liberal Democrats requires an affiliated youth and student wing. Accordingly, Young Liberals is a Specified Associated Organisation (SAO) of the party. It is granted voting rights on va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LYMEC
European Liberal Youth (abbreviated as LYMEC) is an international organisation of liberal youth movements – mostly the youth wings of members of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party but also individual members. LYMEC holds full members status to the European Youth Forum ( YFJ). It is the official youth wing of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) Party and holds separate votes in the statutory bodies of the ALDE Party. Even though the organisation is now called European Liberal Youth, it is still known as LYMEC, which is the abbreviation of the name when the organisation was formed in 1976. It was then known as Liberal and Radical Youth Movement of the European Communities. Member organisations Positions In 2020, LYMEC adopted a resolution, according to which the organisations call for recognition of Taiwan as an independent country. The initiative was submitted by the Danish member organisation Radikal Ungdom. See also *Inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broad Left
The Broad Left was a political faction within the National Union of Students of the United Kingdom (NUS) during the 1970s. It consisted of a working relationship between the Labour Party, the Liberal Party, Plaid Cymru, the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), and other, non-aligned, supporters in order to work as a single voting bloc against the Conservative and some Trotskyist student groups. It held the union presidency from 1973 to 1982. The Broad Left movement should not be confused with the Student Broad Left movement, a later NUS faction. Notable members Those elected to the NUS executive on the Broad Left ticket include the following: * David Aaronovitch (CPGB; NUS President, 1980–82) * Charles Clarke (Labour; NUS President, 1975–77) * Trevor Phillips (Non-aligned Broad Left; NUS President, 1978–1980) * Sue Slipman (CPGB; NUS President, 1977–78) * Andrew Lansley Andrew David Lansley, Baron Lansley, (born 11 December 1956) is a British Conservative Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Union Of Students (United Kingdom)
The National Union of Students (NUS) is a confederation of Students' union, student unions in the United Kingdom. Around 600 student unions are affiliated, accounting for more than 95% of all higher and further education unions in the UK. Although the National Union of Students is the central organisation for all affiliated unions in the UK, there are also the devolved national sub-bodies NUS Scotland in Scotland, NUS Wales (''UCM Cymru'') in Wales and NUS-USI in Northern Ireland (the latter being co-administered by the Union of Students in Ireland). NUS is a member of the European Students' Union. Membership * Constituent membership is granted to students' unions by National Conference or National Executive Council by a two-thirds majority vote * Individual membership is granted automatically to members of students' unions with constituent membership, sabbatical officers of constituent members, members of the National Executive Council and sabbatical conveners of NUS Areas * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Straw
John Whitaker Straw (born 3 August 1946) is a British politician who served in the Cabinet from 1997 to 2010 under the Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He held two of the traditional Great Offices of State, as Home Secretary from 1997 to 2001, and Foreign Secretary from 2001 to 2006 under Blair. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Blackburn from 1979 to 2015. Straw was born in Essex and educated at Oaklands School, where his mother worked as a teacher, and later at Brentwood School. He studied Law at the University of Leeds before having a career as a barrister. He served as an adviser to cabinet minister Barbara Castle and was selected to succeed her as MP for the Blackburn constituency when she stood down at the 1979 United Kingdom general election. From 2007 to 2010, he served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and the Secretary of State for Justice throughout the Brown ministry. Straw is one of only three individuals to have served in Cabinet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alec Beechman
Nevil Alexander Beechman (5 August 1896 – 6 November 1965) was a British barrister and Liberal politician who was National Liberal Party (UK, 1931), Liberal National MP for St Ives (UK Parliament constituency), St Ives from a 1937 St Ives by-election, 1937 by-election until 1950. Family and education Alec Beechman was the only surviving son of Mr N. C. and Mrs Emily Beechman.''Who was Who'', OUP online, 2007 He was educated at Westminster School where he was King's Scholar and ''princeps oppidanorum'' (head boy).''The Times'', 16 June 1937, p. 9 He then studied at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was Domus Exhibitioner in Classics. In 1953 he married Mrs Mary Gwendolyn Caradoc Williams, the widow of Captain Garth Caradoc Williams, Royal Engineers, RE.''The Times'', 8 November 1965, p. 12 Career During the First World War Beechman was commissioned in the British Army as a second lieutenant in May 1915 at the age of eighteen. He served in France and Belgium with the East Surr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archibald Pellow Marshall
Sir Archie Pellow Marshall (20 November 1899 – 20 June 1966) was a British Liberal Party politician and High Court Judge. Background He was the younger son of Alfred Ernest Stanley Marshall, of Roche, Cornwall. He was educated at Truro School, Cornwall and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, MA, LLB (Camb.), 1921–25. In 1926 he married Meta Hawke, of Bugle, Cornwall. They had one son and one daughter. In 1959 he was knighted. He was elected a bard of the Cornish Gorseth in 1963, taking the Bardic name ''Brusyas an Gernewyon'' (Judge of the Cornish). Legal career He was called to Bar and joined the Midland Circuit in 1925. He took silk becoming a King's Counsel in 1947. He became a High Court Judge in 1959. In 1963 he presided over the trial of Dr. Stephen Ward. Geoffrey Robertson, a Queen's Counsel who has written a book on the trial, ''Stephen Ward was Innocent, OK'', says that on more than one significant legal point, Marshall misdirected the jurors. The transcri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Beeching Frankenburg
John Beeching Frankenburg (19 April 1921 – 11 July 1981), was a British barrister and Liberal Party politician. Background Frankenburg was the son of Sidney Frankenburg JP and Charis Frankenburg, MA Oxon, SCM, JP. Sidney Frankenburg had founded the first Jewish branch of the British Legion. Charis Frankenburg was with Mary Stocks the co-founder of the Manchester and Salford Mothers Clinic and was eventually made a ‘Freeman’ of the City of Salford. He was educated at Stowe School in Buckinghamshire and Balliol College, Oxford where he received a Master of Arts (Hons Jurisprudence). In 1952 he married Pamela Holmes. They had two sons. Professional career In 1940 while reading law at University, Frankenburg volunteered for the Army, joining the Cheshire Regiment and in 1941 was given his first command serving in Egypt and Palestine. In 1942 while serving in North Africa he was taken prisoner by the Germans. While a prisoner of war in Germany he continued his law studies and pas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glyn Tegai Hughes
Glyn Tegai Hughes (18 January 1923 – 10 March 2017) was a Welsh scholar, writer and literary critic. He was a Liberal Party politician and Welsh nationalist. Background Hughes is the son of a Welsh Methodist minister,The Times House of Commons, 1950 Rev. John Hughes, and Keturah Hughes. He was educated at Newtown and Towyn County School, the Liverpool Institute and Manchester Grammar School. In 1942 he became a Methodist local preacher. From 1942 to 1946 he served with the Royal Welch Fusiliers and became Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General at the headquarters of the land forces in South-East Asia. After the war, he attended University at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge,The Times House of Commons, 1955 where he gained a Schol., MA, PhD. In 1957 he married Margaret Vera Herbert of Brisbane, Queensland; they had two sons. She died in 1996.'HUGHES, Glyn Tegai', Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2013 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Moore (Liberal Politician)
Richard Gillachrist Moore (20 February 1931 – 15 May 2019), was a British journalist and Liberal Party politician. He was a leader writer at the ''News Chronicle'' and speechwriter to the Liberal Party Leader. Background Moore was born in London, the younger son of Sir Alan Moore and Hilda Mary Burrows. He was educated at Highfield School, Liphook and Radley College, Berkshire, gaining an exhibition to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1949. He was President of Cambridge University Liberal Club in 1953 and President of Cambridge Union in 1955. He was also Chairman of the Union of University Liberal Societies. In 1955 he married Ann Miles. They had two sons Charles and Rowan, and daughter, seven grandchildren and a great-granddaughter.Richard Moore obituary, The Guardian Professional career Moore was a leader writer for the ''News Chronicle'' (1956–60). He was secretary to the Liberal peers from 1960 and then political secretary and speechwriter to Jeremy Thorpe from 1967 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Roberts, Baron Roberts Of Llandudno
John Roger Roberts, Baron Roberts of Llandudno (born 23 October 1935), is a Welsh Liberal Democrat politician, Methodist minister, and life peer. He was for many years President of the Welsh Liberals, and later, the Welsh Liberal Democrats. Early life and education Lord Roberts was educated at John Bright Grammar School, in Llandudno, the University College of North Wales, and Handsworth Methodist College, Birmingham. Career Ordained ministry In 1957, he became a Methodist minister, and was the superintendent Methodist minister at Llandudno for twenty years before serving as minister at the Dewi Sant (Welsh United) Church, Toronto. He is an active supernumerary minister in North Wales. Political career He was a councillor and a leader of the Liberal Democrats on Aberconwy Borough Council for a number of years, and stood as a candidate for the parliamentary seat of Conwy five times. He narrowly missed being elected the last two times he stood, first coming close to beating ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trevor Smith, Baron Smith Of Clifton
Trevor Arthur Smith, Baron Smith of Clifton, (14 June 1937 – 24 April 2021) was a British politician, academic and member of the House of Lords. He was the Liberal Democrat spokesman in the House on Northern Ireland and constitutional affairs. Early life Smith was born in the East End of London, the son of Arthur James Smith and Vera Gladys Smith (née Cross). He read Economics at the London School of Economics in 1955-8, graduating with a BSc. He worked as a schoolteacher for the London County Council from 1958-9. Academic career Smith's first academic post was as an Assistant Lecturer at the University of Exeter from 1959–60. He then became Research Officer for the Acton Society Trust in 1960–2, a trust set up by the Joseph Rowntree Social Service Trust in the 1940s "to analyse the implications of the welfare state for liberty and the individual." In 1962, he became a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Hull, where he would remain for the next five years. In 196 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
