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    Sir Richard Stafford Cripps CH QC FRS (24 April 1889 – 21 April 1952) was a British Labour Party politician, barrister, and diplomat. A wealthy lawyer...
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  • efforts in World War II. The mission was headed by a senior minister Stafford Cripps. Cripps belonged to the left-wing Labour Party, which was traditionally...
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  • between management and workers, with Cripps making over five hundred visits to factories in order to meet staff. Cripps left the ministry on 23 May 1945 when...
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  • author of Cripps on Church and Clergy. Stafford Cripps is said to have been the first layman to preach in St Paul's Cathedral. When Peggy Cripps was preparing...
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    of government to retain their seats, along with George Lansbury and Stafford Cripps. Accordingly, Lansbury was elected Leader unopposed, with Attlee as...
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  • Dame Isobel Cripps, GBE (née Swithinbank; 25 January 1891 – 11 April 1979), also known as Isobel, the Honourable Lady Cripps, was a British overseas aid...
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  • politician Sir Stafford Cripps. Hall, Christopher (28 August 1993). "Obituary: Sir John Cripps". The Independent. Portraits of Sir John Stafford Cripps at the...
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  • Sarah Cripps Sir Stafford Cripps, British politician (1889–1952) William Cripps (d. 1848), British politician William Harrison Cripps (1850–1923), British...
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  • members, Lord Pethick-Lawrence (Secretary of State for India), Sir Stafford Cripps (President of the Board of Trade), and A. V. Alexander (First Lord...
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    Relations Office. September 1947 – Sir Stafford Cripps becomes Minister of Economic Affairs. Harold Wilson succeeds Cripps as President of the Board of Trade...
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  • was Sir Stafford Cripps. By 1937 the Labour Party showed little indication for resolving this issue and those within it ranks such as Cripps faced expulsion...
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    the Hon. Leonard Harrison Cripps, the third son of the first Baron. The Labour politician, The Rt Hon. Sir Stafford Cripps, was the youngest son of the...
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    sister, Blanche, married surgeon William Harrison Cripps, brother to Theresa's husband Charles Cripps, 1st Baron Parmoor. A dissonant voice entered the...
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    leading up to the disaster and Cripps argued the Inspectorate had an interest in turning a blind eye to safety failings. Cripps went so far as to describe...
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    a delegation to India under Stafford Cripps, the Leader of the House of Commons, in what came to be known as the Cripps Mission. The purpose of the mission...
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  • Business School Stafford Cripps (1889–1952), British politician Stafford Huyler, cartoonist who created the webcomic NetBoy Stafford Repp (1918–1974)...
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    subsequently became Minister of Aircraft Production until replaced by Sir Stafford Cripps in November 1942. Later, Llewellin served on the Combined Policy Committee...
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    representative of Bristol East in Parliament and H.M. Government was Sir Stafford Cripps, MP (Lab) 1931–1950, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1947...
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  • as the Cripps question, this way of formulating the issue of inventive step in English law was deployed for many years thereafter. The Cripps question...
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    Morrison and Cripps intrigued to replace Attlee with Bevin as prime minister; Bevin refused to play along, and Attlee bought off Cripps by giving him...
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    in the Attlee ministry of 1945–51. Attlee, Morrison, Ernest Bevin, Stafford Cripps, and initially Hugh Dalton formed the "Big Five" who dominated those...
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    India, Winston Churchill, then Britain's prime minister, sent Sir Stafford Cripps, leader of the House of Commons, with an offer of dominion status to...
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    of a Minister for Economic Affairs in 1947, an office occupied by Stafford Cripps before he was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer. The office was...
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    Party elite. The countertrial received much media attention, and Sir Stafford Cripps delivered the opening speech. Göring was found guilty at the mock trial...
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    followed their exploits." In March 1942, Churchill sent Stafford Cripps on a mission to India ("the Cripps Mission") with an offer based on full Dominion status...
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    during his Swiss holiday of taking a letter to Cripps informing him of the decision to devalue, to which Cripps had been opposed. Wilson had tarnished his...
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    several other members had spoken, including David Lloyd George and Stafford Cripps, the House divided on the question: "That this House welcomes the formation...
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    Exchequer Stafford Cripps' worries that Treasury officials were too "liberal" and too reluctant to implement socialist measures. Like Cripps and Dalton...
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    Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade, who had known her as a member of the pre-war Socialist League. Harold Wilson succeeded Cripps in...
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  • complexity and unfairness in how the duties were applied was discussed by Stafford Cripps in his 1949 Budget speech: The Legacy and Succession Duties also have...
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