George Stone (1907–2001) was a British

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. Born in

Fulham Fulham () is an area of the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham in West London, England, southwest of Charing Cross. It lies on the north bank of the River Thames, bordering Hammersmith, Kensington and Chelsea. The area faces Wandsworth ...

,Harry Conroy,
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, ''

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'', 9 March 2001 Stone studied at the

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''The Times House of Commons 1955'', p.213 and joined the Independent Labour Party (ILP). During

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, he worked for the Aeronautical Inspection Department, and he subsequently moved to

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. In 1947, he became joint editor with Frank Ridley of the party's weekly newspaper, the '' Socialist Leader'' and, when Ridley resigned the following year, he continued as sole editor. Stone stood for the ILP in Glasgow Bridgeton at the 1955 general election, taking only 7.4% of the vote in a seat the party had held until 1947. He stood again at the

1961 Glasgow Bridgeton by-election There was a by-election for the Glasgow Bridgeton constituency on Thursday 16 November 1961. The Labour Party candidate, James Bennett managed to retain the seat for his party, with a majority of 6,995 votes. The by-election was significant, ...

, his vote declining further to only 3.1%. By this point, he was also Chairman of the Scottish Divisional Council of the ILP."I.L.P. May Contest Bridgeton", ''

'', 7 June 1961, p.7 Soon afterwards, he began working as a sub-editor with the ''

'', quickly becoming Father of the Chapel of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ). In 1966, he was appointed as the full-time NUJ official for Scotland and Northern England, serving until 1975.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Stone, George 1907 births 2001 deaths Alumni of the London School of Economics British male journalists British newspaper editors British trade unionists Independent Labour Party National Administrative Committee members People from Fulham