Edward Stanley Bishop, Baron Bishopston (3 October1920 - 19 April1984) was a BritishLabour Party politician. October 3 is the 276th day of the year (277th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 3 - Babe Ruth is traded by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees for $125,000, the largest sum ever paid for a player at that time. ... April 19 is the 109th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (110th in leap years). ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Labour Party has, since the early twentieth century, been the principal left wing political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics). ...
Bishop was educated at South Bristol Central School, Merchant Venturers' Technical College and Bristol University. He was an aeronautical design draughtsman. He contested Bristol West in 1950, Exeter in 1951 and Gloucestershire South in 1955. The University of Bristol was founded in 1876 as the University College, Bristol. ... Bristol West is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... Exeter is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
Bishop was Member of Parliament for Newark from 1964 to 1979, when he lost the seat to the ConservativeRichard Alexander. Bishop was an assistant government whip from 1966 to 1967, and Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 1974 to 1979. A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... Newark is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... The Conservative Party is the second largest political party in the United Kingdom in terms of sitting MPs, and the largest by of public membership. ... Richard Thain Alexander is a politician in the United Kingdom. ...
After he lost his seat, he was given a peerage. The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ...
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Times Guide to the House of Commons 1979
This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
In 1528 he was sent with Bishop Stephen Gardiner to Rome to obtain from Pope Clement VII a decretal commission for the trial and decision of the case between King Henry VIII of England and his first wife, Catherine of Aragon.
On his return Fox was elected provost of King's College, and in August 1529 was the means of conveying to the king Thomas Cranmer's historic advice that he should apply to the universities of Europe rather than to the pope.
Fox was buried in the church of St Mary Mounthaw, London.
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