Edward Castle, Baron Castle

Edward (Edwin) "Ted" Cyril Castle, Baron Castle (5 May 1907 – 26 December 1979) was a British journalist and politician of the Labour Party. Between 1975 and 1979 he was a Member of the European Parliament. In 1944 he married Labour politician Barbara Betts, who, as Barbara Castle, was for 34 years a Member of the House of Commons.

Early life

Castle attended Abingdon School and the Grammar School of Portsmouth and, after completing his school education began working as a journalist.

Journalistic career

In 1932, he was news editor at the daily newspaper The Manchester Evening News, before he in 1943 as a night editor for the daily newspaper Daily Mirror changed.

During this time he met the young Labour politician Barbara Anne Betts, whom he married in July 1944.[1][2]

In 1944 he became deputy editor in chief of Picture Post and later its editor and publisher, before being succeeded by Tom Hopkinson.

Political career

By the mid-1960s, Castle started his own political career in 1964 when he stood for the Labour Party as Assistant Secretary (Alderman) of the Greater London Council and was elected and he remained there until 1970. He also was an Alderman of the Council of the Borough of Islington.

By Letters Patent of 18 June 1974 he was created a life peer with the title Baron Castle, of Islington in Greater London[3] and was a member of the House of Lords until his death.

From 3 July 1975 to till his death in 1979 he served as a Member of the European Parliament and was one of the first representatives of the Labour Party in the European Parliament.

Styles of address

References

  1. ↑ A. T. Lane: Biographical Dictionary of European Labor Leaders, 1995, ISBN 0-31326-4-562, S. 191
  2. ↑ The Houghton Mifflin Dictionary of Biography, 2003, ISBN 0-61825-210-X, S. 287
  3. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 46352. p. 7917. 24 September 1974.

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