George Delacourt-Smith, Baron Delacourt-Smith
British politician
About George Delacourt-Smith, Baron Delacourt-Smith
Lived 1917 – 1972 (aged 55). George Delacourt-Smith, Baron Delacourt-Smith was a British politician and trade unionist.
Charles George Percy Delacourt-Smith, Baron Delacourt-Smith (25 April 1917 – 2 August 1972 He was educated at Windsor Grammar School and went then to Wadham College, Oxford, graduating with a Master of Arts At Oxford he was elected Librarian of the Oxford Union.
Working life After university, he became employed at the New Fabian Research Bureau as a research assistant. In 1960, he was nominated a justice of the peace, assigned to the County of London. Two years later he was appointed Minister of State for Technology and on this occasion sworn of the Privy Council. They had one son and two daughters. He died, aged 55, at the Westminster Hospital, London in 1972, hours after suffering a stroke while making a speech in the House of Lords, being survived by his wife.
Works Democratic Sweden (1938), Smith, G. and Cole, M. (eds), Routledge Britain's Food Supplies in Peace and War (1940), Smith, C., Routledge Modern Turkey (1940), Parker, J. and Smith, C., Routledge
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British politician (1917-1972)
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George Delacourt-Smith, Baron Delacourt-Smith was born on 25 April 1917 in Windsor.
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George Delacourt-Smith, Baron Delacourt-Smith died on 2 August 1972 in Westminster.
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George Delacourt-Smith, Baron Delacourt-Smith was a politician and trade unionist.
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