George Roberts (British politician)

George Henry Roberts
The Right Honourable; George Henry Roberts
	Roberts in the mid 1900s
Minister of Food Control
	In office; 10 January 1919 – 19 March 1920
Prime Minister	David Lloyd George
Preceded by	John Robert Clynes
Succeeded by	Charles McCurdy
Minister for Labour
	In office; 17 August 1917 – 10 January 1919
Prime Minister	David Lloyd George
Preceded by	John Hodge
Succeeded by	Robert Horne
Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade
	In office; 14 December 1916 – 17 August 1917
Prime Minister	David Lloyd George
Preceded by	E. G. Pretyman
Succeeded by	George Wardle
Chief Whip of the Labour Party
	In office; 1916–1919
Leader	Arthur Henderson; William Adamson
Preceded by	Frank Goldstone
Succeeded by	William Tyson Wilson
	In office; 1907–1914
Leader	Keir Hardie; Arthur Henderson; George Barnes; Ramsay MacDonald
Preceded by	Arthur Henderson
Succeeded by	Arthur Henderson
Member of Parliament; for Norwich
	In office; 8 February 1906 – 6 December 1923
Preceded by	Sir Samuel Hoare
Succeeded by	Dorothy Jewson
Personal details
Born	27 July 1868
Died	25 April 1928 (aged 59)
Nationality	British
Other political; affiliations	Labour; Coalition Labour

George Henry Roberts (27 July 1868 – 25 April 1928) was a Labour Party politician who switched parties twice.

Biography

He was born on 27 July 1868.

At the 1906 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Norwich. He was a minister in the Lloyd George Coalition Government as Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade from 1916 to 1917, Minister of Labour from 1917 to 1919, and Minister of Food Control from 1919 to 1920. He was appointed as a Privy Counsellor in 1917.

Roberts stood in 1918 as a Coalition Labour candidate, opposed by the official Labour Party candidate. After leaving office in 1920, Roberts returned as a director to the firm he had left as works manager upon entering Parliament in 1906. He sat on the back-benches and as an independent retained his seat in the 1922 election but lost it as the Conservative candidate in 1923. Roberts spent the rest of his life in the sugar beet industry.

He died on 25 April 1928.

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References

Brodie, Marc. "Roberts, George Henry". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35769. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

Bibliography

Meeres, Frank. George Roberts MP. A Life That 'Did Different'. (Poppyland Publishing, 2019)

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by George Roberts

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Samuel Hoare Louis Tillett	Member of Parliament for Norwich 1906–1923 With: Louis Tillett, to Jan 1910 Frederick Low, 1910–1915 Hilton Young, from 1915	Succeeded by Dorothy Jewson Walter Smith
Trade union offices
Preceded by William Brace and Ben Turner	Trades Union Congress representative to the American Federation of Labour 1911 With: James Crinion	Succeeded by James Seddon and Robert Smillie
Party political offices
Preceded by Ben Turner	Chair of the Labour Party 1912–1913	Succeeded by Tom Fox
Political offices
Preceded by John Hodge	Minister for Labour 1917–1919	Succeeded by Robert Horne
Preceded by J. R. Clynes	Minister of Food Control 1919–1920	Succeeded by Charles McCurdy

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