Richard Crossman | |
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 Crossman in 1947 | |
| Secretary of State for Social Services | |
| In office 1 November 1968 – 19 June 1970 | |
| Prime Minister | Harold Wilson |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Keith Joseph |
| Lord President of the Council Leader of the House of Commons | |
| In office 11 August 1966 – 18 October 1968 | |
| Prime Minister | Harold Wilson |
| Preceded by | Herbert Bowden |
| Succeeded by | Fred Peart |
| Minister of Housing and Local Government | |
| In office 16 October 1964 – 11 August 1966 | |
| Prime Minister | Harold Wilson |
| Preceded by | Keith Joseph |
| Succeeded by | Tony Greenwood |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Education | |
| In office 14 February 1963 – 16 October 1964 | |
| Leader | Harold Wilson |
| Succeeded by | Quintin Hogg |
| Chair of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party | |
| In office 7 October 1960 – 6 October 1961 | |
| Leader | Hugh Gaitskell |
| Preceded by | George Brinham |
| Succeeded by | Harold Wilson |
| Member of Parliament for Coventry East | |
| In office 5 July 1945 – 8 February 1974 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency created |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Richard Howard Stafford Crossman 15 December 1907 London, England |
| Died | 5 April 1974 (aged 66) Banbury, England |
| Political party | Labour |
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| Alma mater | New College, Oxford |
Richard Howard Stafford Crossman OBE (15 December 1907 – 5 April 1974) was a British Labour Party politician. A university classics lecturer by profession, he was elected a Member of Parliament in 1945 and became a significant figure among the party's advocates of Zionism. He was a Bevanite on the left of the party, and a long-serving member of Labour's National Executive Committee (NEC) from 1952.
Crossman was a Cabinet minister in Harold Wilson's governments of 1964–1970, first for Housing, then as Leader of the House of Commons, and then for Social Services. In the early 1970s, Crossman was editor of the New Statesman. He is remembered for his highly revealing three-volume Diaries of a Cabinet Minister, published posthumously.