Joseph Jabez Dean, Baron Dean of Beswick (3 June 1922 – 26 February 1999) was a British Labour Party politician. Dean was born and grew up in Manchester. He left school aged 14 and became an engineering apprentice, later working at the Gorton Locomotive Works and Metropolitan-Vickers. He was a councillor for Manchester Corporation from 1959 to 1974, serving as leader from 1969. He narrowly lost out on selection as the Labour candidate in the February 1974 general election to

Gerald Kaufman Sir Gerald Bernard Kaufman (21 June 1930 – 26 February 2017) was a British politician and author who served as a minister throughout the Labour government of 1974 to 1979. Elected as a member of parliament (MP) at the 1970 general election, ...

but stood instead for

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, where he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP). In the House of Commons, he was an assistant government

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from 1978 to 1979. He served until the

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when he unexpectedly lost his seat to the Liberal candidate Michael Meadowcroft. On 28 September 1983, he was created a

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as Baron Dean of Beswick, ''of West Leeds in the County of West Yorkshire''. He became Labour's spokesperson in the Lords for, at various times, the environment, housing, energy and sport, and served as the peers' representative in the Shadow Cabinet.

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*''Times Guide to the House of Commons 1983'' * *

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* 1922 births 1999 deaths Amalgamated Engineering Union-sponsored MPs Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Dean of Beswick UK MPs 1974 UK MPs 1974–1979 UK MPs 1979–1983 Life peers created by Elizabeth II {{Life-peer-stub