George Darling, Baron Darling of Hillsborough, PC (20 July 1905 – 18 October 1985) was a politician in the United Kingdom. He was
Labour Co-operative
Labour and Co-operative Party (often abbreviated Labour Co-op; cy, Llafur a'r Blaid Gydweithredol) is a description used by candidates in United Kingdom elections who stand on behalf of both the Labour Party and the Co-operative Party.
Candidat ...
Member of Parliament
A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ...
for
Sheffield Hillsborough from 1950 to 1974.
Early life and education
Darling's grandfather, Thomas Darling, was agent for
James Tomkinson
James Tomkinson (1840 – 10 April 1910) was an English landowner and Liberal politician.
Life
Born in 1840, Tomkinson lived at Willington Hall, Chester. He was the son of Waterloo veteran Lieutenant-Colonel William Tomkinson and Susan, da ...
, Liberal MP for
Crewe
Crewe () is a railway town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England. The Crewe built-up area had a total population of 75,556 in 2011, which also covers parts of the adjacent civil parishes of Willaston ...
from 1900 to 1910. He was educated at elementary school in
Crewe
Crewe () is a railway town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England. The Crewe built-up area had a total population of 75,556 in 2011, which also covers parts of the adjacent civil parishes of Willaston ...
, and started work at 14 in the railway sheds of the town.
[Graham, E., "Peers of the past - a doughty fighter for consumer rights", '']The Co-operative News
''Co-op News'' is a UK-based monthly news magazine and website for the global co-operative movement.
First published in Manchester in 1871 as ''The Co-operative News'', the paper is the world's oldest co-operative newspaper. Originally a weekly ...
'', 27 May 2008. After being made redundant in 1926 he matriculated at
Liverpool University
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, before going on to attend
Magdalene College, Cambridge
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, where he became chair of the
Cambridge University Labour Club
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; he graduated with a degree in economics in 1930, gaining a lower-class second in Part I of the tripos and a third in Part II.
Career
After Cambridge Darling chose to enter journalism, before becoming the head of research and information at the
Co-operative Wholesale Society
A co-operative wholesale society, or CWS, is a form of co-operative federation (that is, a co-operative in which all the members are co-operatives), in this case, the members are usually consumer cooperatives. According to co-operative economi ...
from 1930 to 1937. He then joined the ''
Reynolds News
''Reynold's News'' was a Sunday newspaper in the United Kingdom, founded as ''Reynolds's Weekly Newspaper''Joanne Shattock, ''The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature'', p.2908 by George W. M. Reynolds in 1850, who became its first edito ...
'' until 1942 before becoming industrial correspondent for the
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reporting team from 1942 to 1949.
He wrote several books on the co-operative movement. Darling contested
, then the best known Co-operative MP. Darling was a party spokesman in opposition on
subjects and consumer protection. Following
at the Board of Trade, stepping down in 1968. He was President of the Institute of Trading Standards Administration (today the
) and secured legislation regulating car insurance and the descriptions of consumer goods.
. On 3 July of the same year, he was created a
''.
Research.