Stanley George Thorne (22 July 1918 – 26 November 2007) was a British Labour Party politician.

Early life

Stan Thorne was born in 1918 to a dressmaker and a postman, in

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. When his family moved to

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, he began attending Manley Park elementary school which was followed by the attendance of Ducie Avenue central school and Manchester Junior commercial school. He finished schooling at the age of 16 and moved to

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where, for the next 30 years, he worked on numerous posts such as accounts clerk,

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and

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. In 1968 he obtained a diploma from

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and two years later got BA Hons from the

University of Liverpool , mottoeng = These days of peace foster learning , established = 1881 – University College Liverpool1884 – affiliated to the federal Victoria Universityhttp://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/2004/4 University of Manchester Act 200 ...

. From 1970 to 1974 he was a lecturer on

industrial sociology Industrial sociology, until recently a crucial research area within the field of sociology of work, examines "the direction and implications of trends in technological change, globalization, labour markets, work organization, managerial practi ...

at the

University of Bolton , established = 2004 – gained University Status 1982 – Bolton Institute of Higher Education , type = Public , endowment = £160,000 (2009) , administrative_staff = 700+ , chancellor ...

Parliamentary career

After contesting

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1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch ...

, Thorne was

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for Preston South from

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to 1983, and, after boundary changes, for Preston from 1983 until his retirement in

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. His successor was

Audrey Wise Audrey Wise (''née'' Brown; 4 January 1932Wise gave her age as thirty-nine when nominated for the Coventry parliamentary seat, though she had just turned forty-two when she was elected in February 1974. Her date of birth was routinely reported ...

Personal life

Stan Thorne married Esme` Florence Grant in 1944 and together they had a daughter Barbara Joan Thorne born 1945, a son Steven Kilm Thorne born 1947 and in 1948, a second daughter Lynda Margaret Thorne was born. They divorced a few years later. In 1952 Stan Married Catherine Rand and together had one son and one daughter.

References

*''The

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'',

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, 1983

External links

* 1918 births 2007 deaths Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1974 UK MPs 1974–1979 UK MPs 1979–1983 UK MPs 1983–1987 Alumni of the University of Liverpool Academics of the University of Bolton Technical, Administrative and Supervisory Section-sponsored MPs {{England-Labour-UK-MP-stub