Frank Judd, Baron Judd
The Lord Judd | |
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Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs | |
In office 21 February 1977 – 4 May 1979 | |
Prime Minister | James Callaghan |
Preceded by | David Owen |
Succeeded by | Peter Blaker |
Minister for Overseas Development | |
In office 21 December 1976 – 21 February 1977 | |
Prime Minister | James Callaghan |
Preceded by | Reginald Prentice |
Succeeded by | Judith Hart |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Overseas Development | |
In office 14 April 1976 – 21 December 1976 | |
Prime Minister | James Callaghan |
Preceded by | John Grant |
Succeeded by | John Tomlinson |
Under-Secretary of State for the Navy | |
In office 8 March 1974 – 14 April 1976 | |
Prime Minister | Harold Wilson |
Preceded by | Antony Buck |
Succeeded by | Patrick Duffy |
Member of Parliament for Portsmouth North Portsmouth West (1966–1974) | |
In office 31 March 1966 – 7 April 1979 | |
Preceded by | Terence Clarke |
Succeeded by | Peter Griffiths |
Personal details | |
Born | Frank Ashcroft Judd 28 March 1935 |
Nationality | British |
Political party | Labour |
Alma mater | City of London School London School of Economics |
Frank Ashcroft Judd, Baron Judd (born 28 March 1935) is a British Labour Party politician.
Judd was educated at the City of London School and the London School of Economics. He became Secretary-General of the International Voluntary Service, a member of the executive committee of the National Peace Council and chairman of the UK National Youth Committee of Freedom from Hunger.
Judd became General Secretary of the International Voluntary Service in 1960 and is credited for overseeing a significant period of expansion for the organisation.[1] In 1966, Judd left his position at IVS to begin his career in politics.
Judd contested Sutton and Cheam in 1959 (where his mother Helen had been the Labour candidate in 1945) and Portsmouth West in 1964. He was Member of Parliament for Portsmouth West from 1966 to 1974, and after boundary changes, for Portsmouth North from 1974 to 1979, when he lost his seat to the Conservative Peter Griffiths.
Judd was a junior minister for the Royal Navy (1974–1976), Minister for Overseas Development (1976–1977), and Minister of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1977 to 1979. Director of Oxfam (1985–91), Judd was made a life peer on 10 June 1991 with the title Baron Judd, of Portsea in the County of Hampshire.[2] In the Lords he is a member of the Joint Committee on Human Rights.
Lord Judd was member of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly from 1970 to 1973 and again from 1997 to 2005, where he became rapporteur on Chechnya and visited Grozny several times.
Judd was interviewed in 2012 as part of The History of Parliament's oral history project.[3][4]
Patronage
Lord Judd is a patron for the International Voluntary Service.[citation needed]
References
- ^ Rodriguez, Philipp. "Frank Judd - Archives of Service Civil International". archives.sci.ngo. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
- ^ "No. 52559". The London Gazette. 13 June 1991. p. 9093.
- ^ "Oral history: JUDD, Frank (b.1935)". The History of Parliament. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
- ^ "Lord Judd interviewed by Rosa Gilbert". British Library Sound Archive. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
- Times Guide to the House of Commons 1979
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [self-published source] [better source needed]
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Frank Judd
- Interview with the History of Parliament oral history project
- 1935 births
- Living people
- Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
- Labour Party (UK) life peers
- Alumni of the London School of Economics
- International opponents of apartheid in South Africa
- UK MPs 1966–1970
- UK MPs 1970–1974
- UK MPs 1974
- UK MPs 1974–1979
- Politics of Portsmouth
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