George Lindgren, Baron Lindgren
George Samuel Lindgren, Baron Lindgren,
DL (11 November 1900 – 8 September 1971) was a British Labour Party
politician.
Born in Islington, London, at the 1935 general election he was an unsuccessful candidate in the safe Conservative seat of Hitchin in Hertfordshire, coming a distant second with 36.7% of the votes.
At the
Archibald James
on a swing of 7.7% vote.
He was immediately appointed to the
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Insurance from 1945 to 1946, as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Civil Aviation from 1946 to 1950, and as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Town and Country Planning
from 1950 to 1951.
He appears in a film held by the
Cinema Museum in London opening council housing in Sutton in Ashfield in 1952. [1]
Lindgren held the seat until the
Michael Hamilton. He returned to his former occupation as a railway clerk, working in the Eastern Region Chief Civil Engineer's Office at King's Cross station.[2]
He was made a
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Power
.
Lord Lindgren died in 1971 aged 70.
Notes
- ^ HM0384. "Cinema Museum Home Movie Database.xlsx". Google Docs. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Official history of the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association, chapter 24". Archived from the original on 26 November 2006. Retrieved 4 December 2006.
- ^ "No. 42274". The London Gazette. 10 February 1961. p. 1016.
References
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [better source needed]
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
- ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- George Lindgren at ThePeerage.com
External links
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