Somerville Hastings
Somerville Hastings,
FRCS (4 March 1878 – 7 July 1967) was a British surgeon and Labour Party politician.[1]
Early life and career
The son of the Reverend H G Hastings, he was born in
FRCS in 1904 and MB (London) in 1908.[2]
On 19 October 1911 Hastings married Bessie Tuke (1882–1958), the daughter of the architect William Tuke. They had two children.[1]
Working life
Hastings was
House of Commons at the 1945 general election as MP for Barking, holding the seat until his retirement at the 1959 general election
.
Socialist Medical Association.[3]
Hastings was founder President of the
Labour Party Conference that the party should be committed to the establishment of a State Health Service.[6] He was a member of the Party's Medical Services sub-committee which produced the report A State Health Service which was accepted as the basis for the Party's policy.[7]
Death
Somerville Hastings died at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, on 7 July 1967, aged 89.[8]
Publications
Hastings was the author of:
- Toadstools at Home (1906)
- Wild Flowers at Home (1906)
- Alpine Plants At Home (1908)
- Summer Flowers Of The High Alps (1910)
- First Aid for the Trenches (1917)
- The Future of Medical Practice in England The Lancet (1928)
- Fabian Tracts no. 241 A National Physiological Minimum (January 1934)
- The Future of Medical Practice: A Personal View (1942)
- The Development of the Health Services[9] (February 1943) (and many other leaflets and tracts for the Socialist Medical Association)
- The Family And The Social Services with Peggy Jay (February 1965)
References
- ^ ODNB article by John Stewart, 'Hastings, Somerville (1878–1967)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 16 Feb 2016
- ^ a b c "Obituary: Somerville Hastings Former Labour MP". The Times. 8 July 1967. p. 12.
- ^ "A pledge to remember Oxford's Spanish Civil War volunteers". Oxford Mail. 14 March 2014. Retrieved 1 April 2017.
- ^ "Somerville Hastings". 11 March 1967.
- PMID 7643673. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
- ^ "Health Service debate". Labour Party. October 1934. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
- ^ "A State Health Service". Labour Party. October 1934. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
- ^ "Hastings, Somerville (1878 - 1967)". Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online. 11 August 2014. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
- ^ "The Development of the Health Services". 27 February 1943.
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