Cyril Hamnett, Baron Hamnett Explained

Cyril Hamnett, Baron Hamnett (20 May 1906  - 17 March 1980)[1] was a British journalist and politician.

He was the son of James Henry Hamnett and was educated at Manchester Technical School.[2] In 1950 and in the following year, he contested Knutsford unsuccessfully for Labour.[3]

On 6 July 1970, for his services to the Cooperative movement, he was created a life peer with the title Baron Hamnett, of Warrington, in the County Palatine of Lancaster.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Leigh Rayment - Peerage . https://web.archive.org/web/20080608023546/http://www.leighrayment.com/peers/peersH1.htm . June 8, 2008 . usurped . 3 December 2009 .
  2. Book: Charles Roger Dod . Charles Roger Dod . Robert Phipps Dod. amp . Dod's Parliamentary Companion . 1976 . Dod's Parliamentary Companion Ltd. . 138 .
  3. Book: Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom . Political Studies . I . Clarendon Press . 1953 . 125 .

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