The Lord Sheldon | |
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![]() Sheldon in 2011 | |
Financial Secretary to the Treasury | |
In office 17 June 1975 – 4 May 1979 | |
Prime Minister | Harold Wilson James Callaghan |
Preceded by | John Gilbert |
Succeeded by | Nigel Lawson |
Minister of State for the Treasury | |
In office 18 October 1974 – 17 June 1975 | |
Prime Minister | Harold Wilson |
Preceded by | John Nott |
Succeeded by | Denzil Davies |
Minister of State for the Civil Service Department | |
In office 7 April 1974 – 18 October 1974 | |
Prime Minister | Harold Wilson |
Preceded by | Kenneth Baker Geoffrey Johnson-Smith |
Succeeded by | Charles Morris |
Member of the House of Lords | |
In office 22 June 2001 – 18 May 2015 Life Peerage | |
Member of Parliament for Ashton under Lyne | |
In office 15 October 1964 – 14 May 2001 | |
Preceded by | Hervey Rhodes |
Succeeded by | David Heyes |
Personal details | |
Born | Isaac Ezra Shamash 13 September 1923 Manchester, England |
Died | 2 February 2020 | (aged 96)
Political party | Labour (from 1945) |
Spouses | Eileen Shamash
(m. 1945; died 1969)Mary Sheldon (m. 1971) |
Relations | Gerald Shamash (brother-in-law) |
Children | 2 |
Robert Edward Sheldon, Baron Sheldon PC (born Isaac Ezra Shamash; 13 September 1923 – 2 February 2020)[1] was a British Labour Party politician and life peer who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Ashton under Lyne from 1964 to 2001.