Frederick Lee, Baron Lee of Newton, PC (3 August 1906 – 4 February 1984)LEE OF NEWTON, Baron
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to Joseph and Margaret Lee, he was educated at Langworthy Road School of Engineering. He was Chairman of the Works Committee at

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, and of the National Committee of the Amalgamated Engineering Union from 1944 to 1945. Formerly a Member of

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, at the

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he was elected as

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for Manchester Hulme. When that constituency was abolished for the 1950 general election, he was elected for the Newton constituency in

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, and sat for that constituency until retiring from

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at the February 1974 general election. In 1960, on the death of Aneurin Bevan, he stood as a left-wing candidate for Labour's Deputy Leadership against

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and James Callaghan. After Callaghan had been eliminated, Lee was defeated by Brown by 146 votes to 83. He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1948, and held Ministerial office as

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from 1950 to 1951, Minister of Power from 1964 to 1966, the last Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1966, and

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from 1967 to 1969. He was appointed a

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in 1964, and on his retirement in 1974 was created a life peer on 1 July 1974 as Baron Lee of Newton, of Newton in the County of

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