Walter Ernest Padley (24 July1916 - 15 April1984) was a British politician. July 24 is the 205th day (206th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 160 days remaining. ... 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... April 15 is the 105th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (106th in leap years). ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Padley was educated at Chipping NortonGrammar School and Ruskin College, Oxford with a TUC scholarship. He was president of the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers 1948-64. Chipping Norton refers to two places Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire in the United Kingdom Chipping Norton, Sydney, a suburb in inner Sydney This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... A grammar school is a type of school found in some English-speaking countries; some of which date back to earlier than the 16th century. ... Ruskin College is an independent college in Oxford, founded in 1899 and named after John Ruskin. ... Image:TradeUnionsCongress20050108 CopyrightKaihsuTai. ... The Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (USDAW) is a trade union in the United Kingdom. ...
Padley's first parliamentary contest was at the 1943 by-election in Acton, in which he was an Independent Labour Party (ILP) candidate. In 1950 he was elected Labour PartyMember of Parliament for Ogmore and served until 1979, preceding Sir Raymond Powell. He was Minister of State for Foreign Affairs from 1964 to 1967 and Labour Party chairman from 1965 to 1966, having been on the National Executive Committee from 1956. A by-election or bye-election is a special election held to fill a political office when the incumbent has died or resigned. ... Acton was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1983. ... The Independent Labour Party (ILP) was a former political party in the United Kingdom. ... The Labour Party has, since the early twentieth century, been the principal left wing political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics). ... 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. ... Ogmore is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ... Sir Raymond Powell (June 19, 1928—December 7, 2001) was a Welsh politician who served as a Labour Party member of Parliament for Ogmore. ... The National Executive Committee or NEC is the chief administrative body of the Labour Party. ...
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Times Guide to the House of Commons October 1974
This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
WalterPadley of the ILP replied in December and Loris wrote again on the party the next year, ('The British ILP', Fourth International, Feb. 1943, 63).
At a by-election in Acton in December 1943, WalterPadley, the party Industrial Organiser, fought an area where the ILP and Trotskyism had factory support.
The post-war decline of the ILP and the disastrous Battersea by-election are discussed in Chapter XIII.
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