Donald Chapman

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Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
20 January 1976 – 18 April 2013
Life Peerage
Member of Parliament
for Birmingham Northfield
In office
25 October 1951 – 29 May 1970
Preceded byRaymond Blackburn
Succeeded byRaymond Carter
Personal details
Born25 November 1923
Died18 April 2013
(aged 89)
Political partyLabour
Alma materEmmanuel College, Cambridge

William Donald Chapman, Baron Northfield (25 November 1923 – 18 April 2013)[1] was a British Labour politician.

Career

Chapman was educated at

Barnsley Grammar School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a degree in economics in 1948. He was the college's senior researcher in agricultural economics from 1943 to 1946.[2]

He took part in local politics in Cambridge town, where he was a member of the City Council from 1945 to 1947, and concurrent secretary of Cambridge Trades Council and local Labour Party from 1945 to 1957. Nationally, he was research secretary (1948–49) then general secretary (1949–53) of the Fabian Society.[2]

He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Northfield from 1951 until he stood down in 1970. He was a fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, from 1971 to 1973, visiting fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Economics at the University of Sussex from 1973 to 1979, chairman of the Rural Development Commission from 1974 to 1980 and special adviser to the ECC Commission on Environmental Policy in 1981.[2] From 1985 to 1988, he was Director of Wembley Stadium.[citation needed]

After being initially deputy-chairman,

Hitachi Maxell, one of the industrial companies he encouraged to move into Telford.[3]

He was created a

References

  1. ^ "House of Lords announcement 3 June 2013". House of Lords Hansard. 3 June 2013. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
  2. ^ .
  3. ^ a b c d "Chief made vision for new town a reality, Tribute to pioneer who created Telford". Shropshire Star. 3 May 2013. p. 20.Report by Toby Neal.
  4. ^ "News Briefing. Lord Northfield dies at age of 89". Shropshire Star. 3 May 2013. p. 1.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Birmingham Northfield
19511970
Succeeded by
Party political offices
Preceded by
Andrew Filson
General Secretary of the Fabian Society
1949–1953
Succeeded by