Frank Beswick, Baron Beswick

Lord Temporal
Lord Temporal
	In office; 18 December 1964 – 17 August 1987; Life Peerage
Member of Parliament; for Uxbridge
	In office; 5 July 1945 – 18 September 1959
Preceded by	John Llewellin
Succeeded by	Charles Curran
Personal details
Born	Frank Beswick; 21 August 1911; Labour Co-operative
Occupation	Politician

Frank Beswick, Baron Beswick,

Labour Co-operative

politician.

Born in 1911 in

coal miner. He was educated in Nottingham and then at the Working Men's College in London.^[1] He became a journalist and was elected to the London County Council.^[1] He was in Spain during the Spanish Civil War.^[1]

Already a qualified

Flight Lieutenant

in March 1944. He remained in the RAFVR after the war, resigning his commission in 1952.

Beswick was elected to

Reynolds News, having been Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Civil Aviation.^[1] When he lost his seat in 1959, he was appointed political secretary of the London Co-operative Society.^[1]

He was created Baron Beswick, of

Commonwealth Office from 1965 then became Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords in 1967. Continuing in the whip role into Opposition in 1970, in 1974 he was appointed Minister of State for Industry and Deputy Leader of the House of Lords, serving until 1975, and later became the first Chairman of British Aerospace.^[1] In 1975 he was UK signatory of the convention establishing the European Space Agency

.
In 1985 he opened the first ever televised debate in the Lords.[1]

References

^
The Co-operative News
, p. 18, 13 May 2008.
^ "No. 43519". The London Gazette. 18 December 1964. p. 10823.

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Frank Beswick

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by John Llewellin	Member of Parliament for Uxbridge 1945–1959	Succeeded by Charles Curran
Political offices
Preceded by Eirene White	Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies 1965–1966 With: The Lord Taylor	Succeeded by Himself as Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs
Preceded by The Lord Taylor	Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations 1965–1966
Preceded by 2nd Baron Shepherd	Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms 1967–1970	Succeeded by The Earl St Aldwyn
Preceded by The Lord Aberdare	Deputy Leader of the House of Lords 1974–1975	Succeeded by The Lord Goronwy-Roberts
New institution	Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs 1966–1967	Succeeded by William Whitlock

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[coopnews-1] 
The Co-operative News
, p. 18, 13 May 2008.

[2] "No. 43519". The London Gazette. 18 December 1964. p. 10823.

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