Cyril Hamnett, Baron Hamnett

Cyril Hamnett, Baron Hamnett (20 May 1906 – 17 March 1980)^[1] was a British journalist and politician.

He was the son of James Henry Hamnett and was educated at Manchester Technical School.^[2] In 1950 and in the following year, he contested Knutsford unsuccessfully for Labour.^[3]

On 6 July 1970, for his services to the Cooperative movement, he was created a life peer with the title Baron Hamnett, of Warrington, in the County Palatine of Lancaster.^[4]

References

1. ^ "Leigh Rayment - Peerage". http://www.leighrayment.com/peers/peersH1.htm. Retrieved 3 December 2009. 
2. ^ Charles Roger Dod and Robert Phipps Dod (1976). Dod's Parliamentary Companion. Dod's Parliamentary Companion Ltd.. pp. 138. 
3. ^ Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom (1953). Political Studies. vol. I. Clarendon Press. pp. 125. 
4. ^ London Gazette: no. 45144. p. 7484. 7 July 1970. Retrieved 4 December 2009.

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Cyril Hamnett, Baron Hamnett

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Name	Hamnett, Cyril
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Date of birth	20 May 1906
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Date of death	17 March 1980
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