Are you an EPFL student looking for a semester project?
Work with us on data science and visualisation projects, and deploy your project as an app on top of GraphSearch.
Concept
Charles Delacourt-Smith, Baron Delacourt-Smith
Summary
Charles George Percy Delacourt-Smith, Baron Delacourt-Smith (25 April 1917 – 2 August 1972) was a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician.
Born in Windsor and named after his father, he was the only son of Charles Smith and his wife Ethel. He was educated at Windsor Grammar School and went then to Wadham College, Oxford, graduating with a Master of Arts At Oxford he was elected Librarian of the Oxford Union.
After university, he became employed at the New Fabian Research Bureau as a research assistant. In 1939, he came to the Civil Service Clerical Association and was an assistant secretary until 1953. Subsequently, he joined the Post Office Engineering Union, serving as its general secretary 1967. In 1960, he was nominated a justice of the peace, assigned to the County of London.
Following the outbreak of the Second World War, Delacourt-Smith entered the Royal Engineers in July 1940. He was commissioned in January 1943 and was transferred to the Royal Army Service Corps, where he was promoted to captain and was mentioned in despatches. After the end of the war Delacourt-Smith was admitted to the British House of Commons in 1945, having been elected for Colchester. He represented the constituency until 1950 and during this time was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Philip Noel-Baker in the latter's capacity as Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations. In 1947, he was chosen as an executive member of Labour's Research Department, a position he held for the next four years.
Delacourt-Smith was created a life peer as Baron Delacourt-Smith, of New Windsor, in the Royal County of Berkshire in 1967 and thus was enabled to a seat in the House of Lords. Two years later he was appointed Minister of State for Technology and on this occasion sworn of the Privy Council. In 1970, when the Conservative Party took office he was replaced as Minister.
In 1939, he married Margaret, the daughter of Frederick Hando. They both had one son and two daughters. Together with his wife and younger daughter, he assumed the additional surname Delacourt by a deed poll in 1967.
About this result
This page is automatically generated and may contain information that is not correct, complete, up-to-date, or relevant to your search query. The same applies to every other page on this website. Please make sure to verify the information with EPFL's official sources.