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rdfs:label | - Charles Pannell, Baron Pannell
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rdfs:comment | - Thomas Charles Pannell (10 September 1902 – 23 March 1980), created a life peer as Baron Pannell in 1974 was a Labour Party politician. He was an engine fitter and joined the Amalgamated Engineering Union and Labour Party aged 16. He entered local politics in the outer London suburbs: he was a member of Walthamstow Borough Council from 1929-36 and of Erith Borough Council from 1938-55, and served as Mayor of Erith in 1945-46. He also sat on Kent County Council, where he was deputy leader of the Labour group from 1946-49.
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abstract | - Thomas Charles Pannell (10 September 1902 – 23 March 1980), created a life peer as Baron Pannell in 1974 was a Labour Party politician. He was an engine fitter and joined the Amalgamated Engineering Union and Labour Party aged 16. He entered local politics in the outer London suburbs: he was a member of Walthamstow Borough Council from 1929-36 and of Erith Borough Council from 1938-55, and served as Mayor of Erith in 1945-46. He also sat on Kent County Council, where he was deputy leader of the Labour group from 1946-49. He was elected member of parliament for Leeds West at a 1949 by-election, and served until his retirement at the February 1974 general election. He was a junior minister from 1964-66.
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