Edward Shackleton, Baron Shackleton
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
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In office 11 August 1958 – 22 September 1994 Life peerage | |
Member of Parliament for Preston South | |
In office 23 February 1950 – 6 May 1955 | |
Preceded by | constituency established |
Succeeded by | Alan Green |
Member of Parliament for Preston | |
In office 31 January 1946 – 3 February 1950 | |
Preceded by | John William Sunderland |
Succeeded by | constituency abolished |
Personal details | |
Born | 15 July 1911 |
Died | 22 September 1994 (aged 83) |
Spouse |
Betty Horman (m. 1938) |
Children | 2 |
Parent(s) | Officer of the Order of the British Empire |
Edward Arthur Alexander Shackleton, Baron Shackleton,
Early life and career
Born in
Shackleton arranged the 1932 Oxford University Exploration Club expedition to Sarawak in Borneo organised by Tom Harrisson. During this trip, he made the first ascent of Mount Mulu.
In 1934 Shackleton organised the Oxford University
Royal Air Force service
Shackleton served in the
In 1944, Shackleton was
Shackleton relinquished his commission on 15 July 1956 and was granted permission to retain the rank of wing commander.[10]
Political life
Shackleton stood unsuccessfully for Labour at Epsom in the 1945 general election and in the 1945 Bournemouth by-election. In 1946, he was elected for Labour as Member of Parliament for Preston in a by-election. In 1949 he was appointed as Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Minister of Supply, George Strauss.
A boundary change divided Preston into two seats, and in 1950 Shackleton was elected as MP for Preston South on a much-reduced majority. The following year, he was promoted to be PPS to Lord President of the Council and Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison, one of the heavyweight political figures in the post-war government. He was re-elected in 1951.
At the 1955 election, he was defeated. Hugh Gaitskell recommended Shackleton to the Prime Minister, and on 11 August 1958 he was created a life peer by letters patent as Baron Shackleton, of Burley in the County of Southampton.[11] Shackleton delivered his maiden speech in the House of Lords on 11 November 1958, in a debate on a Wages Councils bill, one he thoroughly approved of and welcomed, to increase understanding between unions and management.
In
In April 1968, after the budget, Wilson made Shackleton Leader of the House of Lords, succeeding the Earl of Longford.
Shackleton was active in Wilson's proposals for
Shackleton remained Leader of the House of Lords until a Conservative government was elected in 1970 and thereafter was Opposition Leader in the Lords.
From 1971, Shackleton was President of the
Between 1988 and 1989 he chaired the Lords Science and Technology Committee and in 1989 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society under Statute 12, effectively an honorary fellow.[15] He also served as Chairman of the East European Trade Council[16]
In 1990 Shackleton was appointed an honorary Companion of the Order of Australia (AC), Australia's highest civilian honour, "for service to Australian/British relations, particularly through the Britain–Australia Society.[17]
Lord Shackleton was Pro-Chancellor of the University of Southampton, in which role he was deeply interested in the development of geography at Southampton.[15] A portrait photograph of Lord Shackleton was unveiled by his daughter Alexandra Shackleton in December 1997 in the university's Shackleton Building, which houses the Departments of Geography and Psychology.[citation needed]
In 1994 he became the Life President of the newly founded James Caird Society, named after the boat in which his explorer father and crew escaped Antarctica (itself, in turn, named for
Personal life
In 1938 Shackleton married Betty Homan, and they had two children, Alexandra (born 1940) and Charles (1942-1979).[12]
Arms
Lord Shackleton's
References
- S2CID 186214379.
- ^ Tam Dalyell (24 September 1994). "Obituary: Lord Shackleton". The Independent newspaper. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
- ^ "No. 34932". The London Gazette (Supplement). 27 August 1940. pp. 5224–5225.
- ^ "No. 35241". The London Gazette. 8 August 1941. p. 4581.
- ^ "No. 35260". The London Gazette. 29 August 1941. p. 5031.
- ^ "No. 35725". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 September 1942. pp. 4260–4261.
- ^ "No. 36488". The London Gazette (Supplement). 25 April 1944. p. 1945.
- ^ a b "No. 36544". The London Gazette (Supplement). 2 June 1944. pp. 2613–2618.
- ^ a b "No. 37119". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 1945. pp. 2947–2949.
- ^ "No. 40902". The London Gazette (Supplement). 16 October 1956. p. 5852.
- ^ "No. 41473". The London Gazette. 15 August 1958. p. 5077.
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/55707. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ "Lord Shackleton". The Times. 24 September 1994. p. 21.
- ^ "No. 46274". The London Gazette. 26 April 1974. p. 5227.
- ^ S2CID 186214379.
- ^ "My Lords, it is with a certain".
- ^ Profile Archived 29 January 2019 at the Wayback Machine, itsanhonour.gov.au; accessed 7 April 2016.
- ^ Who's Who and Who was Who, (London, 2018)
- ^ Lord Shackleton's Garter banner Archived 18 November 2015 at the Wayback Machine, stgeorges-windsor.org, June 2015; accessed 7 April 2016.
Bibliography
- Hattersley-Smith, Geoffrey. Geographical Names of the ISBN 0-919034-96-9.
External links
- Portraits of Edward Shackleton, Baron Shackleton at the National Portrait Gallery, London
- University of Southampton website ("Shackleton portrait unveiled in Geography Department")
- BSES
- Archive collection of Edward Shackleton collection with bio/history
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Edward Shackleton
- Parliamentary Archives, Papers of Arthur Edward Alexander Shackleton MP, Baron Shackleton, 1911-1994