Edward Bishop, Baron Bishopston

Edward Stanley Bishop, Baron Bishopston, PC (3 October 1920 – 19 April 1984) was a British Labour Party politician.

Born in Bristol, Bishop was educated at South Bristol Central School, Merchant Venturers' Technical College and Bristol University. He was an aeronautical design draughtsman. He contested Bristol West in 1950, Exeter in 1951 and South Gloucestershire in 1955.[1]

Bishop was Member of Parliament for Newark from 1964 to 1979, when he lost the seat to the Conservative Richard Alexander. Bishop was an assistant government whip from 1966 to 1967, and Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 1974 to 1979.[2]

After he lost his seat, he was created a life peer as Baron Bishopston, of Newark in the County of Nottinghamshire on 21 May 1981.[3]

He was sworn in as a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom in 1977, Giving Him the Honorific Title "The Right Honourable" and after ennoblement the Post Nominal Letters "PC" for Life.

Lord Bishopston died in Devon aged 63.

Personal life

He was married to Winifred and had four daughters: Anne, Mary, Frances and Ursula.[4]

gollark: But incentives reduce it, in my IMO.
gollark: I don't consider scalping very bad in the first place.
gollark: If someone does something due to incentives pushing them to do so, I would blame them slightly less.
gollark: More seriously: I don't think the blame thing is entirely binary.
gollark: The kitten killing incentivizer is to blame.

References
  1. "Posthumous honour". Newark Advertiser. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
  2. Cretney, Stephen Michael (2003). Family Law in the Twentieth Century: A History. Oxford University Press. p. 780. ISBN 9780198268994.
  3. "No. 48621". The London Gazette. 27 May 1981. p. 7263.
  4. "Bishopston", Who Was Who (A & C Black; online edition, Oxford University Press, April 2014). Retrieved 16 November 2017.
  • Times Guide to the House of Commons 1979
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
George Deer		 Member of Parliament for Newark
1964 – 1979		 Succeeded by
Richard Alexander


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