Harry Nathan, 1st Baron Nathan
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| Minister of Civil Aviation | |
| In office 4 October 1946 – 31 May 1948 | |
| Monarch | George VI |
| Prime Minister | Clement Attlee |
| Preceded by | Reginald Fletcher |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Pakenham |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 2 February 1889 |
| Died | 23 October 1963 (aged 74) |
| Political party | St Paul's School |
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Harry Louis Nathan, 1st Baron Nathan, Attlee Ministry until 1948.
Early life
Nathan was born in London in 1889, son of Michael Henry Nathan, a fine art publisher and
St Paul's School, he became a solicitor and member of the firm of Herbert Oppenheimer, Nathan and Vandyk. He became honorary secretary of the Brady Working Lads' Club, the oldest and largest of the London Jewish Lads' Clubs (now JLGB
).
Nathan served in
Zionist Organization which promoted the re-establishment of Israel
.
Politics
He stood as the Liberal candidate in
Whitechapel and St. George's without success. He was a member of the Liberal Industrial Inquiry which prepared Britain's Industrial Future, also known as the Liberal Yellow Book.[1] He was first elected in 1929 as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bethnal Green North East and was re-elected in 1931. Along with many other Anglo-Jewish communal leaders, Nathan was a founding member of the Central British Fund for German Jewry renamed some years after his death.[2] In 1934, he defected to the Labour Party.[3] Labour won the seat at the 1935 general election but Nathan was not their candidate; he opted instead to stand in Cardiff South. He lost by 1.8% of the votes cast, a small increase in the two-party swing his campaign saw – of 271 votes – would have seen him elected.[3]
In 1937, Nathan returned to Parliament in
Privy Counsellor
in 1946.
Family
His wife Eleanor Nathan was Chairman of London County Council (1947–1948).[5] He was succeeded to the barony by his son Roger (1922–2007). His daughter, Joyce, was married to Bernard Waley-Cohen, later the 633rd Lord Mayor of London, and the son of Robert Waley Cohen, an industrialist and fellow leading member of the Central British Fund for German Jewry.[2]
Arms
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References
- ISBN 0510023002.
- ^ a b Gottlieb, Amy Zahl. Men of Vision: Anglo-Jewry's Aid to Victims of the Nazi Regime, 1933–1945. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998, p.26
- ^ a b British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949, F. W. S. Craig
- ^ "No. 34884". The London Gazette. 28 June 1940. p. 3941.
- ^ "Lady Nathan presides over London County Council". The Sydney Morning Herald. 7 August 1947.
- ^ Burke's Peerage. 1949.
- ISBN 0-491-00471-0.
- The Times obituary, 25 October 1963
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Harry Nathan
- Newspaper clippings about Harry Nathan, 1st Baron Nathan in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW
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