Arthur Bottomley
Herbert Bowden | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Secretary for Overseas Trade | |||||||||||||||||||||
In office 7 October 1947 – 26 October 1951 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Prime Minister | Clement Attlee | ||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Harold Wilson | ||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Henry Hopkinson | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Arthur George Bottomley 7 February 1907 London, England | ||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 3 November 1995 (aged 88) London, England | ||||||||||||||||||||
Political party | Labour | ||||||||||||||||||||
Spouse | Bessie Wiles (m. 1936) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Arthur George Bottomley, Baron Bottomley,
PC (7 February 1907 – 3 November 1995) was a British Labour
politician, Member of Parliament and minister.
Early life
Before entering parliament he was a
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1941 Birthday Honours.[1]
Parliamentary career
Bottomley was first elected to parliament in the 1945 general election for the Chatham division of Rochester and he held the seat (later renamed Rochester and Chatham) until losing it in the 1959 general election to the Conservative Julian Critchley. He returned to parliament by winning Middlesbrough East in a 1962 by-election and held the seat, and its successor Middlesbrough, until his retirement in 1983.
Bottomley was a junior minister in
Minister of Overseas Development
(1966–67).
Announced in the
County of Cleveland, on 31 January 1984.[3]
Lord Bottomley died on 3 November 1995 at the age of 88.
Family
His wife, Bessie Ellen Bottomley (née Wiles),
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
in 1970 "[f]or public and social services."
Bessie Ellen Bottomley died in 1998 in Redbridge, Essex.
Publications
- The Use and Abuse of Trade Unions, London: Ampersand, 1963.
- With George Sinclair, Control of Commonwealth Immigration. An Analysis and Summary of the Evidence taken by the Select Committee on Race Relations and Immigration 1969–70. London: Runnymede Trust, 1970 (ISBN 9780902397033).
- Commonwealth, Comrades, and Friends, Somaiya Publications, 1986.
References
- ^ "No. 35184". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 June 1941. p. 3287.
- ^ "No. 49583". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1983. p. 1.
- ^ "No. 49637". The London Gazette. 3 February 1984. p. 1579.
- ^ Dalyell, Tam (7 November 1995). "OBITUARY: Lord Bottomley". The Independent.