Former Pupils of Owen's School - Edmund Dell, Alan Keith, Alan John Knight, Ronnie Waldman, William Foyle (Paperback)

Chapters: Edmund Dell, Alan Keith, Alan John Knight, Ronnie Waldman, William Foyle. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Edmund Emanuel Dell PC (15 August 1921 28 October 1999) was a British politician and businessman. Dell was born in London, the son of a Jewish manufacturer. In World War II he served in the Rifle Corps and the Royal Artillery, leaving as a first lieutenant. He studied at Dame Alice Owen's School and Queen's College, Oxford where he was a Communist Party comrade of Denis Healey, graduating with first class honours in modern history in 1947. Dell soon began work for Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) in Manchester as an overseas sales manager, specialising in Latin American trade and eventually rose to Vice President of the Plastics Division. Dell soon began to find himself in the difficult position of balancing a career in business with Labour politics. In 1953 Dell was elected to Manchester City Council and served for seven years. He stood unsuccessfully for Parliament in 1955 in Middleton and Prestwich. Dell was dissuaded from standing for Parliament in 1959 by ICI on the grounds that it would make promotion to the highest ranks of the company difficult. However, Dell eventually gave in to the temptation of Parliament and was elected to Parliament as the Labour Member of Parliament for Birkenhead in 1964. He served as parliamentary private secretary to Jack Diamond, then Parliamentary Secretary for Technology under Tony Benn in 1966 and Under-Secretary of State for Economic Affairs under Peter Shore in 1967. In 1968 he was promoted to Minister of State for Trade. Switched to employment in 1969, he was made a privy councillor in 1970. Dell was one of the 69 Labour MPs to rebel against the Labour government to vote for Britain's e...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=150912