Jack Diamond, Baron Diamond
Sally Oppenheim | |
---|---|
Member of Parliament for Manchester Blackley | |
In office 5 July 1945 – 4 October 1951 | |
Preceded by | John Lees-Jones |
Succeeded by | Eric Johnson |
Personal details | |
Born | John Diamond 30 April 1907 Leeds, West Yorkshire, England |
Died | 3 April 2004 Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, England | (aged 96)
Political party | Labour (until 1981; 1995–2004) SDP (1981–88) 'Continuing' SDP (1988–90) Non-affiliated (1990–95) |
John Diamond, Baron Diamond,
PC (30 April 1907 – 3 April 2004), known as Jack Diamond, was a British Labour Party
politician.
Diamond was educated at
House of Commons in a 1957 by-election for Gloucester, caused by the death of its Labour MP, Moss Turner-Samuels
.
He served as
Sally Oppenheim-Barnes
.
Diamond was appointed to the
Privy Council in the 1965 Birthday Honours,[1] and was created a life peer as Baron Diamond of the City of Gloucester on 25 September 1970.[2] In 1981 he left the Labour Party for the new Social Democratic Party (SDP). He led the SDP in the House of Lords from 1982 to 1988 but opposed its merger with the Liberals, associating instead with the Owenite 'continuing' SDP before rejoining Labour in 1995.[3]
Family
Diamond was first married in 1932 and had two sons and a daughter. He had a daughter, Joan, by his second wife, Julie Goodman, whom he married in 1948. They separated in 1966 and divorced 10 years later. Upon his death at 96, he was survived by his children and by his third wife, Barbara Kagan, whom he had married in 1976.
References
- ^ "No. 43667". The London Gazette (Supplement). 4 June 1965. p. 5471.
- ^ "No. 45207". The London Gazette. 6 October 1970. p. 10875.
- ^ Sheila Gunn, 'Diamond refuses to yield ground.' The Times, 15 March 1988, p. 4.