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Fred Peart, Baron Peart - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (240 words) |
 | ories "Fred" Peart, Baron Peart, PC (1914-26 August 1988) was a British Labour politician who served in the Labour governments of the 1960s and 1970s and was a candidate for Deputy Leader of the Party. |
| Peart was elected Member of Parliament for Workington in 1945, serving until 1976. |
| Peart was made a life peer in 1976 as Baron Peart, of Workington in the County of Cumbria. |
| Britain.tv Wikipedia - Harold Wilson (5138 words) |
| James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, PC (11 March 1916 â 24 May 1995) was one of the most prominent British politicians of the 20th century. |
| As Wilson wished to remain an MP after leaving office, he was not immediately given the peerage customarily offered to retired Prime Ministers, but instead was created a Knight of the Garter. |
| On leaving the House of Commons in 1983, he was created Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, in Kirklees in the County of West Yorkshire. |
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