Hastings Bertrand Lees-Smith PC (26 January 1878 – 18 December 1941) was a British Liberal turned Labour politician who was briefly in the cabinet as President...
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of this year, the following candidates had been selected: Labour; Hastings Lees-Smith Conservative; Gay Burdett Results compared to December 1910 election...
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inequality and health in Britain, 1800–2000: a reader edited by George Davey Smith, Daniel Dorling, and Mary Shaw Emslie, Stuart; Hancock, Charles, eds. (30...
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Wedgwood Benn, Arthur Henderson, J. H. Thomas, William Jowitt, Hastings Lees-Smith, Earl Russell Conservative: Earl Peel, Marquess of Zetland, Samuel...
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ISBN 9780521580809. Retrieved 19 December 2019. Sugarman, Daniel. "MP Hastings Bertrand Lees-Smith saved dozens of lives, but had no idea". The JC. The Jewish Chronicle...
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Victoria Cross Hastings Keith (1915–2005), US congressman from Massachusetts Hastings Lees-Smith (1878–1941), English Member of Parliament Hastings Rashdall...
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even if there is no actual opposition. The first acting leader was Hastings Lees-Smith, the MP for Keighley, who died in office on 18 December 1941. He...
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was reduced to a single-member seat, his former Liberal co-member Hastings Lees-Smith having sought election elsewhere and joined the Labour Party. He...
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Henderson (1931) George Lansbury (1931–1935) Clement Attlee (1935–1955) Hastings Lees-Smith (1940–1941) – in opposition Frederick Pethick-Lawrence (1942) – in...
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Members of Parliament, Volume III 1919–1945, edited by M. Stenton and S. Lees (Harvester Press 1979) Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by...
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sport and health, and the effect his trip to India had on him. Gladys Groom-Smith, interviewed in June and August 1976, was secretary to the Pethick-Lawrence's...
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Trevelyan 7 June 1929 2 March 1931 (resigned) Labour Ramsay MacDonald Hastings Lees-Smith 2 March 1931 24 August 1931 Labour Donald Maclean 25 August 1931...
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administration of the Force. Savidge Inquiry Sir John Eldon Bankes, Hastings Lees-Smith, John Withers 1928 Tribunal inquiry into the interrogation Miss Irene...
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Minister Stanley Baldwin Preceded by Vernon Hartshorn Succeeded by Hastings Lees-Smith Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade In office 1 April 1921 –...
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(1877–1938) 11 November 1924 7 June 1929 Conservative Baldwin II Hastings Lees-Smith MP for Keighley (1878–1941) 7 June 1929 2 March 1931 Labour MacDonald...
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of our enemies. In response, the acting Leader of the Opposition, Hastings Lees-Smith, thanked him for his statement and pointed out that "we have not...
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succeeds Lord Thomson as Secretary of State for Air March 1931 – H.B. Lees-Smith succeeds Sir C.P. Trevelyan at the Board of Education. Herbert Morrison...
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Party candidate for the Keighley byelection caused by the death of Hastings Lees-Smith. The political parties had agreed an electoral truce, and a threatened...
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Morrell MP Arnold Rowntree MP Arthur Ponsonby MP Richard Denman MP Hastings Lees-Smith MP R.L. Outhwaite MP Joseph King MP E.T. John MP Charles Buxton Morgan...
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Minister Ramsay MacDonald Preceded by Lord Eustace Percy Succeeded by Hastings Lees-Smith In office 22 January 1924 – 3 November 1924 Prime Minister Ramsay...
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their previous tablets, were added to the second row and unveiled by Hastings Lees-Smith, the Postmaster-General, in a ceremony also commemorating the 50th...
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Votes % ±% C National Democratic James Walton 6,095 46.2 Liberal Hastings Lees-Smith 3,868 29.3 Labour Edward Hough 3,226 24.5 Majority 2,227 16.9 Turnout...
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by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Labour MP, Hastings Lees-Smith. It was won (unopposed) by the Labour candidate Ivor Thomas. Leigh...
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Lanarkshire, 1929–31; Cannock, 1945–70 Karen Lee, Lincoln, 2017–19 Hastings Lees-Smith, Keighley, 1922–23; 1924–31; 1935–42 Ron Leighton, Newham North East...
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Chamberlain Winston Churchill Leader of the Opposition Clement Attlee Hastings Lees-Smith Frederick Pethick-Lawrence Arthur Greenwood Clement Attlee Third-party...
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Trinity College, Cambridge. He was Principal Private Secretary to Hastings Lees-Smith, Sir Donald Maclean and Lord Halifax, as Presidents of the Board...
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Great Hall of the Royal Geographical Society. This was opened by Hastings Lees-Smith, President of the Board of Education. The rest of the congress was...
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throughout her life. During World War II, she served as an assistant to Hastings Lees-Smith, the secretary general of the Labour Party. Following the war, she...
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Herbert Morrison (1888–1965) Sir George Halsey Perley (1857–1938) Hastings Lees-Smith (1878–1941) The Earl of Clarendon (1877–1955) The Earl of Bessborough...
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office 27 October 1931 – 25 October 1935 Preceded by Hastings Lees-Smith Succeeded by Hastings Lees-Smith Member of Parliament for Richmond (Surrey) In office...
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