The Lord Ennals | |
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| Shadow Secretary of State for Social Services | |
| In office 4 May 1979 – 14 June 1979 | |
| Leader | James Callaghan |
| Preceded by | Patrick Jenkin |
| Succeeded by | Stanley Orme |
| Secretary of State for Social Services | |
| In office 8 April 1976 – 4 May 1979 | |
| Prime Minister | James Callaghan |
| Preceded by | Barbara Castle |
| Succeeded by | Patrick Jenkin |
| Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs | |
| In office 7 March 1974 – 8 April 1976 | |
| Prime Minister | Harold Wilson |
| Succeeded by | Ted Rowlands |
| Member of Parliament forNorwich North | |
| In office 28 February 1974 – 13 May 1983 | |
| Preceded by | George Wallace |
| Succeeded by | Patrick Thompson |
| Member of Parliament forDover | |
| In office 15 October 1964 – 29 May 1970 | |
| Preceded by | John Arbuthnot |
| Succeeded by | Peter Rees |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1922-08-19)19 August 1922 Walsall, Staffordshire, England |
| Died | 17 June 1995(1995-06-17) (aged 72) Belsize Park, London, England |
| Political party | Labour |
| Other political affiliations | Liberal(early 1950s) |
| Spouse(s) | Eleanor Maud Caddick (1950–1977) Gene Tranoy (1977–1995) |
David Hedley Ennals, Baron Ennals,PC (19 August 1922 – 17 June 1995) was aBritish Labour Party politician and campaigner for human rights. He served asSecretary of State for Social Services from 1976 to 1979.
Born in 1922 inWalsall, Staffordshire to Arthur Ford Ennals and his wife Jessie Edith Taylor, Ennals was educated atQueen Mary's Grammar School,Walsall and theLoomis Institute inWindsor, Connecticut on a one-year student exchange scholarship.[1] In 1939 he was a reporter on theWalsall Observer.
InWolverhampton on his nineteenth birthday, 19 August 1941, he enlisted in theRoyal Army Service Corps (RASC) and joined 9th Training Battalion (Drivers) atAlfreton. Selected for officer training, he was posted to 162 Officer Cadet Training Unit atLanark in March 1942.[2]
He was commissioned into theReconnaissance Corps in September 1942[3] and posted to the3rd Regiment Reconnaissance Corps (NF) (3 Recce), part of the3rd Infantry Division.[4] Hisservice number was 245228.Landing in Normandy on D-Day, 6 June 1944, Lieutenant Ennals commanded a Contact Detachment providing wireless links between units.[5] On the night of 28/29 June 1944 he went on a night patrol with 1st BattalionRoyal Norfolk Regiment who were holding the position to the right of 3 Recce to the north ofCaen. The patrol was fired on and returned less Lt Ennals.[6] He was reported as believed to be a prisoner of war.[7] At the beginning of August 1944 Rennes Military Hospital was liberated by US troops. Amongst the patients was Lt Ennals, having been admitted on 3 July with atfracture of his right humerus.[8] He was transferred to a UK hospital on the 14 August[9] and classed as unfit for duty[10] until he was invalided out with the rank of Lieutenant in 1947.[11]
Ennals stood unsuccessfully as aLiberal candidate forRichmond (Surrey) in the1950 general election and again in1951.[12] He later joined the Labour Party and served as secretary to the international department at the Labour Party's head office.
In1964 he was elected as the Member of Parliament forDover. Following the1966 election,Harold Wilson appointed Ennals as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Army. He moved to becomeParliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department in 1967 underJames Callaghan before being appointed as a Minister of State in the Department of Health and Social Security in 1968.[13] He lost his government post and his seat following Labour's defeat in the1970 general election. However, inWilson's Resignation Honours, he was sworn of thePrivy Council.[14]
Ennals returned to parliament representingNorwich North following theFebruary 1974 general election and was appointedMinister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. In 1976 he becameSecretary of State for Social Services,[15] which he held until Labour lost power in1979. During his tenure he appointedSir Douglas Black to produce theBlack Report (published in 1980) into health inequality. After losing his seat in thegeneral election of 1983, he was created alife peer, asBaron Ennals, of Norwich in the County of Norfolk.[16][17]
Following his exit from parliament in 1970, Ennals became Campaign Director for theNational Association for Mental Health (MIND), which he served as until 1973. He became chairman in 1984, and served as president from 1989 to 1995.
Ennals was Secretary of theCouncil for Education in World Citizenship (CEWC) 1947 - 1952,[18] before leaving to serve as secretary to theUnited Nations Association from 1952 to 1957, he became chairman in 1984, as well as Chairman of theGandhi Foundation, which he held until 1995. Ennals also served as Chairman of theAnti-Apartheid Movement, from 1960 to 1964, a position that would also be held by his brother John from 1968 to 1976. However, he later came under criticism from the Movement for his involvement in passing theCommonwealth Immigrants Act 1968.[19]
In 1987 Lord Ennals went on a parliamentary fact-finding mission toTibet and on his return to the UK he became a tireless campaigner for Tibetan independence and a friend of the14th Dalai Lama. He joined the Tibet Society of the UK, the first Tibet support group in the world, established in 1959, and became its chairman for a number of years.[20] He campaigned energetically and enthusiastically with it and various other UK and international Tibet support groups until his death in 1995.
Ennals married Eleanor Maud Caddick (born 1924/1925) on 10 June 1950, and they had four children before they divorced in 1977. Later that year he married Katherine Gene Tranoy (born 1926/1927).
Ennals had an older brother, John and a younger brotherMartin Ennals, who was a human rights activist and Secretary-General ofAmnesty International. His son,Sir Paul Ennals, is chief executive of theNational Children's Bureau.
He died in 1995 ofpancreatic cancer at his home inBelsize Park, London.
she was replaced by Mr David Ennals. His appointment caused an interesting flurry of concern. Mr Ennals (now Lord Ennals) had (indeed has) radical sympathies — he has subsequently been a Labour MP and Cabinet Minister
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