Richard Emanuel Winterbottom (22 July 1899 - 9 February 1968) was a British

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 Labour Party

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 politician

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Born in Oldham

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, Lancashire

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, Winterbottom served in the Royal Navy

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 during World War I

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. He became an area organiser for a predecessor of the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers

Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers

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 in 1931, then the national organiser in 1944. In 1950, he was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Sheffield Brightside, serving for his first year as Parliamentary Private Secretary

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 to Ness Edwards

Ness Edwards

Onesimus Edwards was a Welsh Labour Party politician.A trade unionist, Ness Edwards was imprisoned in 1917 as a conscientious objector to the conscription of the First World War. He was elected Member of Parliament for Caerphilly at a by-election in 1939 following the death of Labour MP and...

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Winterbottom remained in Parliament until his death in 1968.

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