| Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
| The Lord Delacourt-Smith | |
| Office: | Minister of State for Technology |
| Alongside: | Eric Varley |
| Term Start: | 1969 |
| Term End: | 1970 |
| Primeminister: | Harold Wilson |
| 1Blankname: | Minister |
| 1Namedata: | Tony Benn |
| Office2: | Member of Parliament for Colchester |
| Term Start2: | 26 July 1945 |
| Term End2: | 3 February 1950 |
| Predecessor2: | Oswald Lewis |
| Successor2: | Cuthbert Alport |
| Birth Name: | Charles George Percy Smith |
| Birth Date: | 25 April 1917 |
| Death Date: | 2 August 1972 (aged 55) |
| Alma Mater: | Wadham College, Oxford |
| Spouse: | Margaret Hando |
| Children: | 1 son, 2 daughters |
| Party: | Labour |
Charles George Percy Delacourt-Smith, Baron Delacourt-Smith (25 April 1917 – 2 August 1972), was a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician.
Born in Windsor and named after his father, he was the only son of Charles Smith and his wife Ethel.[1] He was educated at Windsor Grammar School and went then to Wadham College, Oxford, graduating with a Master of Arts[2] At Oxford he was elected Librarian of the Oxford Union.
After university, he became employed at the New Fabian Research Bureau as a research assistant.[1] In 1939, he came to the Civil Service Clerical Association and was an assistant secretary until 1953.[1] Subsequently, he joined the Post Office Engineering Union, serving as its general secretary 1967.[3] In 1960, he was nominated a justice of the peace, assigned to the County of London.[1]
Following the outbreak of the Second World War, Delacourt-Smith entered the Royal Engineers in July 1940.[1] He was commissioned in January 1943 and was transferred to the Royal Army Service Corps, where he was promoted to captain and was mentioned in despatches.[2] After the end of the war Delacourt-Smith was admitted to the British House of Commons in 1945, having been elected for Colchester.[2] He represented the constituency until 1950 and during this time was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Philip Noel-Baker in the latter's capacity as Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations.[2] In 1947, he was chosen as an executive member of Labour's Research Department, a position he held for the next four years.[1]
Delacourt-Smith was created a life peer as Baron Delacourt-Smith, of New Windsor, in the Royal County of Berks in 1967 and thus was ennobled to a seat in the House of Lords. Two years later he was appointed Minister of State for Technology and on this occasion sworn of the Privy Council.[3] In 1970, when the Conservative Party took office he was replaced as Minister.[3]
In 1939, he married Margaret, the daughter of Frederick Hando.[4] They both had one son and two daughters.[4] Together with his wife and younger daughter, he assumed the additional surname Delacourt by a deed poll in 1967. He died, aged 55, at the Westminster Hospital, London in 1972, after suffering a stroke while making a speech in the House of Lords, being survived by his wife.[4] Two years after his death she received a life peerage in her own right.