Jock Stallard
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
|---|---|
| In office 7 September 1983 – 29 March 2008 Life peerage | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Albert William Stallard 5 November 1921 Hamilton, Scotland |
| Died | 29 March 2008 (aged 86) London, England |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse |
Julia (Sheila) Murphy
(m. 1944; died 2004) |
| Children | 2 |
| Education | Hamilton Academy |
Albert William "Jock" Stallard, Baron Stallard (5 November 1921 – 29 March 2008)[1] was a British Labour politician. He served as a councillor in St Pancras and Camden, and then as a Member of Parliament (MP). He retired from the House of Commons at the 1983 general election and became a life peer in the 1983 Dissolution Honours.
Early life
Stallard was born in
He was elected to
Parliamentary career
Stallard was Member of Parliament for St Pancras North from 1970 until the constituency was abolished in boundary changes at the 1983 general election. In both the February 1974 and October 1974 general elections, his Conservative Party opponent was future Prime Minister John Major, who was making his debut as a parliamentary candidate.[3]
When the Labour party returned to government in 1974, Stallard became a
After being passed over for selection for a re-drawn seat of Holborn and St Pancras in the 1983 general election in favour of Frank Dobson, the younger Labour candidate from Holborn and St Pancras South, the other half of the merged constituency, Stallard was appointed to the House of Lords. He was created a life peer as Baron Stallard, of St Pancras in the London Borough of Camden, on 7 September 1983.[4]
In the House of Lords, he opposed compulsory
Personal life and death
Stallard married Julia (Sheila) Murphy in 1944, in St Pancras, London.[6] His wife was Irish, originally from County Kerry, and the couple had a son, Richard, in 1945 and a daughter, Brenda, in 1949.[7][8] He was a self-taught pianist, enjoyed jazz music and performed at sing-songs in several Camden pubs.[9]
Stallard attended the House of Lords everyday until his wife's death in 2004.[9] Following a long illness, Stallard died in a nursing home in north London on 29 March 2008, aged 86.[1] A Requiem Mass was held in Our Lady of Hal Catholic Church in Camden Town, north London, attended by Members of the House of Lords, MPs, representatives from local government, including Lord Tony Clark who gave the first reading, and Lord Ted Graham and Roger Robinson who read tributes at the end of the Mass.[9]
Notes
- ^ a b c d "Obituary: Lord Stallard". the Guardian. 30 March 2008. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
- ^ "Lord Stallard". The Daily Telegraph. 31 March 2008. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
- ^ John Major (1999). John Major: The Autobiography. Harper Collins. pp. 54–5.
- ^ "No. 49474". The London Gazette. 12 September 1983. p. 11949.
- ^ "Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Vol. 612. House of Lords. 11 April 2000. col. 144.
- ^ "FreeBMD Entry Info". www.freebmd.org.uk. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
- ^ "FreeBMD Entry Info". www.freebmd.org.uk. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
- ^ "FreeBMD Entry Info". www.freebmd.org.uk. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
- ^ a b c "StackPath". www.indcatholicnews.com. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
References
- Times Guide to the House of Commons 1979
- Labour's Lord Stallard dies at 86, news.bbc.co.uk, 30 March 2008
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [better source needed]
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
- Obituaries:
