Hugh James Delargy was an Irish

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

 British Labour Party

Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...

 politician and MP.

He was born in County Antrim

County Antrim

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Delargy was educated in England

England

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, Paris

Paris

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 and Rome

Rome

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 and worked as a teacher, journalist, labourer and insurance official. He was a Manchester City Council

Manchester City Council

Manchester City Council is the local government authority for Manchester, a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. It is composed of 96 councillors, three for each of the 32 electoral wards of Manchester. Currently the council is controlled by the Labour Party and is led by...

lor 1937-46.

Delargy was Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 for Manchester Platting

Manchester Platting (UK Parliament constituency)

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 from 1945 to 1950, and for Thurrock

Thurrock (UK Parliament constituency)

Thurrock is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.- Boundaries :...

 from 1950 until his death in 1976. He was a Labour whip

Whip (politics)

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 1950-52. His successor in the subsequent by-election

Thurrock by-election, 1976

The Thurrock by-election of 15 July 1976 was held after the death of Labour Member of Parliament Hugh Delargy. Labour held on to the seat in the by-election.-Results:...

 was Oonagh McDonald

Oonagh McDonald

Oonagh Anne McDonald CBE is a British academic and businesswoman, and a former Labour Party politician.-Early life:McDonald was born in Stockton-on-Tees, Co Durham, the daughter of Dr HD McDonald, an Irish protestant minister...

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He was a member of the Anti-Partition of Ireland League

Anti-Partition of Ireland League

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 and participated in the Manchester Martyrs

Manchester Martyrs

The Manchester Martyrs – William Philip Allen, Michael Larkin, and Michael O'Brien – were members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, an organisation dedicated to ending British rule in Ireland. They were executed for the murder of a police officer in Manchester, England, in 1867, during...

 commemoration in Manchester in 1949 which was addressed by Éamon de Valera

Éamon de Valera

Éamon de Valera was one of the dominant political figures in twentieth century Ireland, serving as head of government of the Irish Free State and head of government and head of state of Ireland...

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He was a holder of the Grand Cross of the Polonia Restituta

Polonia Restituta

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 awarded by the Polish government-in-exile.

Involvement in the John Bodkin Adams Affair

Delargy played an interesting but minor part in the aftermath of the John Bodkin Adams

John Bodkin Adams

John Bodkin Adams was an Irish-born British general practitioner, convicted fraudster and suspected serial killer. Between the years 1946 and 1956, more than 160 of his patients died in suspicious circumstances. Of these, 132 left him money or items in their will. He was tried and acquitted for...

 trial. Adams was suspected of being a serial killer but was controversially found not guilty in 1957. On 8 November 1956 however, the Attorney-General Reginald Manningham-Buller

Reginald Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount Dilhorne

Reginald Edward Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount Dilhorne PC, QC , known as Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller, Bt, from 1954 to 1962 and as The Lord Dilhorne from 1962 to 1964, was an English lawyer and Conservative politician...

 who was to prosecute the case, handed a confidential Scotland Yard

Scotland Yard

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 report into Adams' activities to Dr McRae, Secretary of the British Medical Association

British Medical Association

The British Medical Association is the professional association and registered trade union for doctors in the United Kingdom. The association does not regulate or certify doctors, a responsibility which lies with the General Medical Council. The association’s headquarters are located in BMA House,...

 (BMA), effectively the doctors' trade union in Britain. The prosecution's most valuable document was then copied and passed to Adams' defence counsel.

After a tip-off from a Daily Mail

Daily Mail

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 journalist, on 28 November Delargy (in conjunction with MP Stephen Swingler

Stephen Swingler

Stephen Thomas Swingler, PC was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was a Member of Parliament from 1945 to 1950, and from 1951 to 1969....

) addressed a question to the Attorney-General to be answered in the House of Commons on 3 December regarding Manningham-Buller's contacts with the General Medical Council

General Medical Council

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 and BMA within the last six months. Manningham-Buller was absent on the day in question but gave a written reply stating he had "had no communications with the General Medical Council within the last six months." He avoided referring to the BMA directly and therefore avoided lying, though it could be argued, deliberately misled the House.

Adams was eventually acquitted of the murder of Edith Alice Morrell

Edith Alice Morrell

Edith Alice Morrell , was a resident of Eastbourne and patient of the suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams. He was tried for her murder in 1957 but acquitted...

 but was suspected by Home Office

Home Office

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 pathologist Francis Camps

Francis Camps

Francis Edward Camps, FRCP, FRCpath was a famous English pathologist notable for his work on the cases of serial killer John Christie and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams.-Early life and training:...

of killing 163 patients.

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