Santo Jeger Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Dr
Santo Jeger
Birth Date:1898 5, df=yes
Birth Name:Santo Wayburn Jeger
Birth Place:London, England
Office:Member of Parliament for Holborn and St Pancras South
Term Start:23 February 1950
Term End:24 September 1953
Predecessor:New constituency
Successor:Lena Jeger
Office2:Member of Parliament for St Pancras South East
Term Start2:5 July 1945
Term End2:23 February 1950
Predecessor2:Alfred Beit
Successor2:Constituency abolished
Office3:Mayor of Shoreditch
Term Start3:1929
Term End3:1930
Predecessor3:George Reynolds
Successor3:Henrietta Girling
Parliament:United Kingdom
Party:Labour Party
Spouse:
    Nationality:British
    Alma Mater:University College, Cardiff
    London and St Mary's Hospital

    Santo Wayburn Jeger (20 May 1898 – 24 September 1953) was a British Labour Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1945 until his death.

    Born in London, Jeger attended University College, Cardiff and the London and St Mary's Hospitals. As a doctor, Jeger was a founder of the Socialist Medical Association. He served as a councillor on Shoreditch Borough Council from 1925 and was Mayor of the Borough 1929–1930 and the Chairman of the Borough's public health committee for six years, establishing a number of clinics and public health schemes. He represented Shoreditch on the Metropolitan Boroughs Standing Joint Committee. Jeger was elected to the London County Council in 1931, serving until 1946. He was active in providing medical aid to the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War.[1]

    Jeger stood for Parliament without success in 1935 general election in St Pancras South East[2] but won the seat at the 1945 general election. He was elected in the two subsequent elections in 1950 and 1951 for the new seat of Holborn and St Pancras South.[1] [3] Jeger died in 1953 at the age of 55, and his widow, Lena Jeger, succeeded him as the member of parliament in the ensuing by-election.[4]

    Notes and References

    1. Book: The Times' Guide to the House of Commons. 1950.
    2. Book: Craig , F. W. S. . F. W. S. Craig . British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 . 1969 . 3rd . 1983 . Parliamentary Research Services . Chichester . 0-900178-06-X . 45.
    3. Book: The Times' Guide to the House of Commons . 1951.
    4. News: Castle. Barbara. Baroness Jeger. 23 April 2017. The Guardian. 3 March 2007.