Francis Campbell Ross Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Barloch

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(21 October 1889 – 30 March 1980), was a British journalist, solicitor and Labour Party politician.

Early life

Douglas was educated at

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and later became a partner in Douglas & Company, solicitors, and also worked as a journalist. A member of Battersea Borough Council, he was

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of Battersea in 1922–1923.

Parliamentary career

Having unsuccessfully fought

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, he was elected as the

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(MP) for Battersea North at a by-election in 1940, a seat he held until 1946, and served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the

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from 1940 to 1945 and to the

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from 1945 to 1946 ( James Chuter Ede held both positions). He was an advocate of land-value rating and in 1936 wrote a book, revised in 1961, "to present a concise summary of the economic arguments in favour of the rating of land values".

After the Commons

In 1946 Douglas he resigned from the

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on being appointed

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, which he remained until 1949. Douglas was made a

in 1947 and in 1950 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Douglas of Barloch, of Maxfield in the County of Sussex. He was also a member of the

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from 1936 to 1946 and of the Railway Assessment Committee from 1938 to 1946 and served as Chairman of the Finance Committee of the

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from 1940 to 1946. After being raised to the peerage he was a Deputy Speaker of the

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. Lord Douglas of Barloch died in March 1980, aged 90. The title became extinct on his death.

References

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Francis Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Barloch at Archives in London and the M25 area

External links

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