About Leonard Behrens
Lived 1890 – 1978 (aged 87–88). Leonard Behrens was a politician.
Sir Leonard Frederick Behrens CBE (15 October 1890 – 12 March 1978) was a British Liberal Party politician and public figure.
Born in Manchester, Behrens studied at Manchester Grammar School, Rugby School and Manchester University.
He stood unsuccessfully as the Liberal candidate in Manchester Withington at the 1945 and 1950 general elections.
Behrens was a keen supporter of the League of Nations Union, and later the United Nations Association, becoming vice-president of the World Federation of United Nations Associations. From 1955 to 1957, he served as President of the Liberal Party,
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