Stanley Clinton-Davis, Baron Clinton-Davis

The Lord Clinton-Davis
Official portrait, 1985
Minister of State for Trade
In office
2 May 1997 – 28 July 1998
Prime MinisterTony Blair
Preceded byAnthony Nelson
Succeeded byBrian Wilson
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Trade
In office
4 March 1974 – 4 May 1979
Prime Minister
Preceded byEric Deakins
Succeeded byMichael Meacher
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
8 May 1990 – 10 January 2018
Life peerage
Member of Parliament
for Hackney Central
In office
18 June 1970 – 13 May 1983
Preceded byHerbert Butler
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
Personal details
Born
Stanley Clinton Davis

(1928-12-06)6 December 1928
London, England
Died11 June 2023(2023-06-11) (aged 94)
Political partyLabour
Spouse
Francis Lucas
(m. 1954)
Children4
Alma materKing's College London

Stanley Clinton Clinton-Davis, Baron Clinton-Davis, PC (born Stanley Clinton Davis, 6 December 1928 – 11 June 2023) was a British politician and solicitor.[1][2] A member of the Labour Party, he served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Hackney Central from 1970 to 1983, and was a minister in the Labour governments of Harold Wilson, James Callaghan and Tony Blair. He was European Commissioner in the Delors Commission (1985–1989). In 1990, he became a life peer, sitting on the Labour benches in the House of Lords until his retirement in 2018.

  1. ^ "Mr Clinton Davis (Hansard)". Parliament of the United Kingdom. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
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