Ernest Popplewell
British politician
Intro | British politician | |
Places | United Kingdom Great Britain | |
was | Politician | |
Work field | Politics | |
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Birth | 10 December 1899 | |
Death | 11 August 1977 (aged 77 years) | |
Politics: | Labour Party |
Ernest Popplewell, Baron Popplewell, CBE (10 December 1899 – 11 August 1977) was a British Labour Party politician.
In the Labour landslide at the 1945 general election, Popplewell was elected as Member of Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne West. In 1951 he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). After his retirement from the House of Commons at the 1966 general election, he was made a life peer as Baron Popplewell, of Sherburn-in-Elmet in the West Riding of the County of York on 6 June 1966.