Charles Pannell

The Right Honourable The Lord Pannell PC
Minister of Public Buildings and Works
In office 16 October 1964 – 6 April 1966
Prime Minister	Harold Wilson
Preceded by	Geoffrey Rippon
Succeeded by	Reg Prentice
Member of Parliament for Leeds West
In office 21 July 1949 – 28 February 1974
Preceded by	Thomas Stamford
Succeeded by	Joseph Dean
Personal details
Born	10 September 1902
Died	23 February 1990 (aged 87)
Political party	Labour

Thomas Charles Pannell, Baron Pannell, PC (10 September 1902 – 23 March 1980) was a British Labour Party politician.

He entered local politics in the outer London suburbs: he was a member of Walthamstow Borough Council from 1929–36 and of Erith Borough Council from 1938–55, and served as Mayor of Erith in 1945-46. He also sat on Kent County Council, where he was deputy leader of the Labour group from 1946-49.^[1]

He was elected Member of Parliament for Leeds West at a 1949 by-election, and served until his retirement at the February 1974 general election.

Pannell served as Minister of Public Building and Works in the first Wilson government, 1964-66.

On 21 June 1974 he was created a life peer, taking the title Baron Pannell, of the City of Leeds.^[2]

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 1)

1. "Pannell, Baron". Who Was Who. (subscription required (help)).
2. The London Gazette: no. 46334. p. 7419. 28 June 1974.

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Charles Pannell