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Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
In office 7 December 1972 – 5 March 1974
Leader	Harold Wilson
Preceded by	George Thomson
Succeeded by	Ian Gilmour
Shadow Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
In office 16 December 1971 – 7 December 1972
Leader	Harold Wilson
Preceded by	Cledwyn Hughes
Succeeded by	Norman Buchan
Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
In office 20 June 1970 – 16 December 1971
Leader	Harold Wilson
Preceded by	Selwyn Lloyd(1965)
Succeeded by	Michael Foot

Leader of the House of Commons
Lord President of the Council

In office
1 November 1968 – 20 June 1970

Prime Minister

Harold Wilson

Preceded by

Dick Crossman

Succeeded by

William Whitelaw

Parliamentary offices

Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
In office 23 September 1976 – 26 August 1988 Life Peerage
Member of Parliament forWorkington
In office 5 July 1945 – 23 September 1976
Preceded by	Thomas Cape
Succeeded by	Richard Page

Personal details

Born

(1914-04-30)30 April 1914

Durham, England

Died

26 August 1988(1988-08-26) (aged 74)

London, England

Political party

Labour

Spouse

Bette Lewis

(m. 1945)

Children

Alma mater

Durham University

Thomas Frederick Peart, Baron Peart,PC (30 April 1914 – 26 August 1988) was a BritishLabour politician who served in the Labour governments of the 1960s and 1970s and was a candidate for Deputy Leader of the Party.

Early life and education

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Thomas Frederick Peart was born inDurham, England, in 1914, the son of Emerson Featherstone Peart, a headmaster and leading Labour member ofDurham County Council, and Florence Blissenden.^[1] The younger Peart qualified as a teacher at theUniversity of Durham in 1936.^[1] During his time at university he was President of theDurham Union forEpiphany term of 1936.^[2] He studied at theInner Temple but did not enter the legal profession, instead teaching economics in Durham.^[1] He served in theRoyal Artillery inWorld War II, gaining the rank of captain.^[1]

Political career

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Peart was elected Member of Parliament forWorkington in 1945, serving until 1976.^[1] He initially served asPPS to the Minister of Agriculture & Fisheries (Tom Williams).^[1]

Peart, along with the rest of the Labour Party, went into opposition followingWinston Churchill's 1951 election victory. In 1964, he returned to government afterHarold Wilson defeatedAlec Douglas-Home at that year's election. He was appointed to the Cabinet holding the Cabinet post ofMinister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.^[1] His tenure saw advances in pay for agricultural labourers, and in technology.

In 1968, Peart becameLord Privy Seal, with no particular responsibilities.^[1] Seven months later, Peart becameLeader of the House of Commons, taking the subsidiary titleLord President of the Council.^[1] After Labour lost the 1970 election, Peart returned to opposition asShadow Leader of the House of Commons. He held that position until December 1971, when he became Shadow Agriculture Minister.^[3] When Labour returned to power, Peart once more took the Agriculture portfolio.

On 23 September 1976, Peart was created alife peer asBaron Peart, of Workington in the County of Cumbria,^[4] to serve asLeader of the House of Lords andLord Privy Seal at a time when the Labour faction in the Lords was tiny compared to the vast Tory majority, mainly composed of hereditary peers.^[1]

AfterMargaret Thatcher won the1979 election, Peart continued asLeader of the Labour Peers and thus becameShadow Leader of the House of Lords. He served in those roles until 1982, when he was defeated for re-election byLord Cledwyn of Penrhos in a vote among Labour peers.^[5]

Personal life and death

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In 1945, Peart married Bette Lewis, and they had one son.^[1]

On 6 June 1975, Peart was on board the train which derailed in theNuneaton rail crash; he survived with minor injuries.^[6]

In 1984, Peart was attacked by two robbers who broke into his London home. This preceded a terminal decline in his health, and he died at a hospital in London on 26 August 1988, at the age of 74.^[1]

References

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^^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^lMorris, Alfred (2004). "Peart, (Thomas) Frederick, Baron Peart (1914–1988), politician".Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/39855. (Subscription,Wikipedia Library access orUK public library membership required.)
^Campbell, P. D. A. (1952).A Short History of the Durham Union Society. Durham County Press. p. 17.
^Warden, John (17 December 1971)."Wilson Gives Foot Key Market Role".The Glasgow Herald. p. 22. Retrieved18 January 2011.
^"No. 47025".The London Gazette. 28 September 1976. p. 13129.
^"No whip's job for Canavan".The Glasgow Herald. 5 November 1982. p. 6.
^"Nuneaton train crash: Vivid memories 40 years on".Coventry Telegraph. Retrieved23 October 2016.

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Hansard 1803–2005:contributions in Parliament by Fred Peart

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Preceded by Christopher Soames	Minister of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 1964–1968	Succeeded by Cledwyn Hughes
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