Hervey Rhodes, Baron Rhodes

Hervey Rhodes, Baron Rhodes (12 August 1895 – 11 September 1987), was a British Labour Party politician.

Biography Born in Saddleworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Rhodes was educated at St Mary's School, Greenfield, and Huddersfield Technical College. He was employed within the woollen industry.

During the First World War he served with the King's Own Royal Lancashire Regiment, and later with the Yorkshire Regiment. Seconded to the Royal Flying Corps, Rhodes served as an observer/gunner with No. 12 Squadron flying the RE 8. The squadron was mainly engaged on reconnaissance and artillery spotting duties, but Rhodes who normally flew with pilot South African Lt Croye Pithey,#tag:ref|All but one of Rhodes' claims were with Pithey as pilot. Pithey and Rhodes were the highest scoring RE 8 crew of the war. Rhodes won the Distinguished Flying Cross and Bar. He again held office as Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade from 1964 until 1967. He served as Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire from 1968. He was made a Privy Counsellor in 1969, a Knight Companion of the Garter in 1972 and served as Deputy-Lord Lieutenant of Greater Manchester from 1974. He died in Oldham aged 92.