Ian Winterbottom, Baron Winterbottom (6 April 1913 – 4 July 1992), was a Labour Party politician in the

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. He was educated at

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and

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. He was elected at the 1950 general election as the

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(MP) for Nottingham Central, a marginal constituency which the sitting Labour MP

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had abandoned for the promising

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seat. He held the seat at the 1951 general election with a majority of only 139 votes, but lost it at the 1955 election to the Conservative candidate

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. He contested Nottingham Central again at the 1959 general election, but Cordeaux held the seat with an increased majority. He did not contest the 1964 election, when Labour returned to government under

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, but was created a

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on 14 May 1965, as Baron Winterbottom, ''of Clopton in the

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''. After Labour's victory at the 1966 general election, he joined the Labour Government, serving as Under-Secretary of State for the Navy until 1967, as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Public Building and Works from 1967 to 1968 and finally as Under-Secretary of State for the Air Force from 1968 until the government's defeat at the 1970 general election. In 1981 he joined the

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(SDP) as a founder member. In his ''Who's Who'' entry he described himself as "latterly a

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". He died in 1992, aged 79.

References

Resources

Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources: UK General Elections since 1832
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* 1913 births 1992 deaths People educated at Charterhouse School Alumni of Clare College, Cambridge Labour Party (UK) life peers Social Democratic Party (UK) life peers Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1950–1951 UK MPs 1951–1955 UK MPs who were granted peerages Ministers in the Wilson governments, 1964–1970 Life peers created by Elizabeth II {{Life-peer-stub