The Lord Pendry | |
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 Official portrait, 2020 | |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland | |
| In office 11 November 1978 – 4 May 1979 | |
| Prime Minister | James Callaghan |
| Sec. of State | Roy Mason |
| Preceded by | Raymond Carter |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Elton |
| Lord Commissioner of the Treasury | |
| In office 8 March 1974 – 11 January 1977 | |
| Prime Minister |
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| Chancellor | Denis Healey |
| Preceded by | Marcus Fox |
| Succeeded by | Tom Cox |
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| In office 11 July 2001 – 26 February 2023 Life peerage | |
| Member of Parliament forStalybridge and Hyde | |
| In office 18 June 1970 – 14 May 2001 | |
| Preceded by | Fred Blackburn |
| Succeeded by | James Purnell |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1934-06-10)10 June 1934 Broadstairs, Kent, England |
| Died | 26 February 2023(2023-02-26) (aged 88) |
| Political party | Labour |
Thomas Pendry, Baron Pendry,PC (10 June 1934 – 26 February 2023) was a BritishLabour politician and member of theHouse of Lords. He was previously the Labour member of parliament forStalybridge and Hyde from 1970 to 2001. In 2000, prior to his retirement as anMP he was made a member of thePrivy Council on the recommendation ofTony Blair. After the 2001 election he was elevated to thepeerage on 4 July as Baron Pendry, ofStalybridge in the County of Greater Manchester.[1] He was president of the Football Foundation Ltd and was formerly sports advisor toTameside District Council Sports Trust.[2][3]
Pendry was born inBroadstairs,Kent on 10 June 1934.[4][5] In an article inCheshire Life magazine in June 2004, Pendry revealed that he was born in relatively comfortable circumstances, attending school atSt Augustine's Abbey[6] and, later,Plater College. He worked as a trade union officer forNUPE, and as an engineer.
Pendry was a councillor onPaddington Borough Council in London from 1962 to 1965 (when the borough was abolished), representing Harrow Road South.[7] He was elected to Parliament in 1970 for Stalybridge and Hyde, which at the time covered areas inCheshire andLancashire, and subsequently became part ofGreater Manchester. He served as anopposition whip between 1971 and 1974.
InJames Callaghan's administration between 1976 and 1979 Pendry served as a juniorLord Commissioner of the Treasury (assistant government whip) and subsequently asParliamentary Under-Secretary of State forNorthern Ireland.
In 1979 he returned to thebackbenches, until he was appointed to the post ofShadow Minister for Sport and Tourism byJohn Smith, a position he held until 1997. When the Labour government came to power in 1997, Pendry was the only member of the shadow team not to be appointed to a government post.
Lord Pendry had a love of sport that he developed duringNational Service with theRoyal Air Force. He was appointed President of theFootball Foundation in February 2003 and continued to serve in this capacity up until his death in 2023.[8] A young Pendry learnt boxing at the hands of aBenedictine monk, becoming anOxford Blue and boxing for theRAF.[citation needed]
Pendry was a member of the Lords and Commons Cigar Club. From June to September 2018, he sat on the Regenerating Seaside Towns and Communities Committee. His memoir,Taking It on the Chin, was published in 2016.[9]
Pendry died on 26 February 2023, at the age of 88.[10]
On 21 July 1995, the Labour-controlledTameside Metropolitan Borough Council, the local authority which had administered the area covered by the Stalybridge and Hyde constituency since 1974, made Pendry an honorary freeman of the borough.[11] At the same time, the council granted him thelordship of the manor ofMottram in Longdendale. Tameside Council have also named part of Trinity Street in front of the old Stalybridge market hall,Lord Pendry Square.[12] A local football club,Stalybridge Celtic, have named one of their standsThe Lord Tom Pendry Stand.[13]
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