Frederick Lee, Baron Lee of Newton

The Lord Lee of Newton
The Right Honourable; The Lord Lee of Newton; PC
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
	In office; 7 January 1967 – 6 October 1969
Prime Minister	Harold Wilson
Preceded by	George Thomson
Succeeded by	George Thomson
Secretary of State for the Colonies
	In office; 6 April 1966 – 1 August 1966
Prime Minister	Harold Wilson
Preceded by	Frank Pakenham
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Minister of Power
	In office; 18 October 1964 – 6 April 1966
Prime Minister	Harold Wilson
Preceded by	Frederick Erroll
Succeeded by	Richard Marsh
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour and National Service
	In office; 2 March 1950 – 25 October 1951
Prime Minister	Clement Attlee
Preceded by	Ness Edwards
Succeeded by	Peter Bennett
Member of Parliament; for Newton
	In office; 23 February 1950 – 28 February 1974
Preceded by	Robert Young
Succeeded by	John Evans
Member of Parliament; for Manchester Hulme
	In office; 5 July 1945 – 23 February 1950
Preceded by	Sir Joseph Nall
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born	3 August 1906; Manchester
Died	4 February 1984 (aged 77)
Nationality	British
Political party	Labour

Frederick Lee, Baron Lee of Newton, PC (3 August 1906 – 4 February 1984)[1] was a British Labour Party politician and peer.

Born in Manchester[2] to Joseph and Margaret Lee, he was educated at Langworthy Road School of Engineering. He was Chairman of the Works Committee at Metropolitan-Vickers, Trafford Park, Manchester, and of the National Committee of the Amalgamated Engineering Union from 1944–45. Formerly a Member of Salford City Council, at the 1945 general election he was elected as Member of Parliament for Manchester Hulme.[3]

When that constituency was abolished for the 1950 general election, he was elected for the Newton constituency in Lancashire, and sat for that constituency until retiring from Parliament at the February 1974 general election.[1] In 1960, on the death of Aneurin Bevan, he stood as a left-wing candidate for Labour's Deputy Leadership against George Brown and James Callaghan. After Callaghan had been eliminated, Lee was defeated by Brown by 146 votes to 83.

He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1948, and held Ministerial office as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour and National Service from 1950–51, Minister of Power from 1964 to 1966, the last Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1966, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1967 to 1969. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1964, and on his retirement in 1974 was created a life peer on 1 July 1974 as Baron Lee of Newton, of Newton in the County of Merseyside.[4]

References

LEE OF NEWTON, Baron, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014
Rosen, Greg (2001) [2001]. Dictionary of Labour Biography (1st ed.). London: Politico's Publishing. p. 352. ISBN 1-902301-18-8.
Craig, F.W.S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 189. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
"No. 46352". The London Gazette. 24 September 1974. p. 7917.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Sir Joseph Nall, Bt	Member of Parliament for Manchester Hulme 1945–1950	Constituency abolished
Preceded by Robert Young	Member of Parliament for Newton 1950 – February 1974	Succeeded by John Evans
Political offices
Preceded by Lord Longford	Secretary of State for the Colonies 1966	Succeeded by Herbert Bowden as Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs
Preceded by Frederick Erroll	Minister of Power 1964–1966	Succeeded by Richard Marsh
Preceded by George Thomson	Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1967–1969	Succeeded by George Thomson

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