Frank Judd, Baron Judd
Frank Ashcroft Judd, Baron Judd (born March 28 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 International Voluntary Service GB, a member of the executive committee of the National Peace Council and chairman of the UK National Youth Committee of Freedom from Hunger.
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.[1] 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.
References
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 52559. p. 9093. 13 June 1991.
- Times Guide to the House of Commons 1979
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Frank Judd
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by Terence Clarke |
Member of Parliament for Portsmouth West 1966 – February 1974 |
Constituency abolished |
| New constituency | Member of Parliament for Portsmouth North February 1974 – 1979 |
Succeeded by Peter Griffiths |
| Party political offices | ||
| Preceded by Anthony Lester |
Chairman of the Fabian Society 1973 – 1974 |
Succeeded by Nicholas Bosanquet |
| Political offices | ||
| Preceded by Reg Prentice |
Minister for Overseas Development 1976–1977 |
Succeeded by Judith Hart |
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