Walter Padley
Walter Ernest Padley (24 July 1916 – 15 April 1984) was a British Labour politician.
Padley was educated at Chipping Norton Grammar School and Ruskin College, Oxford with a TUC scholarship. He was president of the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers 1948–1964.
During the Second World War he registered as a conscientious objector, but after appearances at both his Local and the Appellate Tribunals, he was permitted only exemption from combatant service, and was required to serve in the Non-Combatant Corps (NCC).
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 Party Member of Parliament for Ogmore and served until 1979. He was Minister of State for Foreign Affairs from 1964 to 1967 and Labour Party chairman 1965–1966, having been on the National Executive Committee from 1956.
Bibliography
- The Economic Problem of the Peace London: Gollancz (1944)
- Marcus Aurelius (pen name) Am I My Brother's Keeper? London: Gollancz (1945)
- Britain: Pawn or Power? London: Gollancz (1947)
- Soviet Russia: Free Union or Empire? Bombay: National Info. & Publications (1947)
References
- Times Guide to the House of Commons October 1974
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [self-published source] [better source needed]
- 1916 births
- 1984 deaths
- Alumni of Ruskin College
- Welsh Labour Party MPs
- British trade unionists
- UK MPs 1950–51
- UK MPs 1951–55
- UK MPs 1955–59
- UK MPs 1959–64
- UK MPs 1964–66
- UK MPs 1966–70
- UK MPs 1970–74
- UK MPs 1974
- UK MPs 1974–79
- British conscientious objectors
- Chairs of the Labour Party (UK)
- Personnel of the Non-Combatant Corps