BRITISH LABOUR PARTY.
MEMBERS OF EXECUTIVE. (Received October 7, 5.30 p.m.) A. and N.Z. * LONDON, Oct. 7. Among the newly-elected members of the executive of the Labour Party are Mr. Oswald Mosley, member of the House of Commons for Smithwick, and Mr. C. P. Trevelyan, member for Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The chairman is Mr. George Lansbury, member for Bow and Bromley. Mr. George Lansbury was born in Suffolk in 1859. He had an elementary education, and is now a timber merchant in Whitechapel. He has held many local Government offices in Last London, and was elected as Labour M.P. for Bow and Bromley in 1910, for which constituency he now sits. Mr. Oswald Mosley is the eldest son of Sir Oswald Mosley, a wealthy baronet. He was formerly in the 16th'Lancers, and served in the war. He married a daughter of the late Marquess Curzon. and was at one time a Conservative member of the House of Commons Mr C. P. Trevelyan is the eldest son of Sir George Otto Trevelyan, Bt_ He was formerly a Liberal member of the House of Commons, and was Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education but he resigned this post when Britain decided to enter the war.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19762, 8 October 1927, Page 11
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