The Right Honourable
The Lord Pannell
PC
Minister of Public Buildings and Works
In office
16 October 1964 – 6 April 1966
MonarchElizabeth II
Prime MinisterHarold Wilson
Preceded byGeoffrey Rippon
Succeeded byReg Prentice
Member of Parliament
for Leeds West
In office
21 July 1949 – 8 February 1974
Preceded byThomas Stamford
Succeeded byJoseph Dean
Personal details
Born(1902-09-10)10 September 1902
Died23 March 1980(1980-03-23) (aged 77)
Political partyLabour

Thomas Charles Pannell, Baron Pannell, PC (10 September 1902 – 23 March 1980) was a British Labour Party politician.

He entered local politics in the outer London suburbs: he was a member of Walthamstow Borough Council from 1929 to 1936 and of Erith Borough Council from 1938 to 1955, 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 to 1949.[1]

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.

Pannell served as Minister of Public Building and Works in the first Wilson government, 1964–66. He once served as a pairing whip for future Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher and was among the first to tip her as a future Prime Minister.[2]

On 21 June 1974 he was created a life peer, taking the title Baron Pannell, of the City of Leeds.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Pannell, Baron". Who Was Who.
  2. ↑ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Anthony Howard - Not getting on well with Margaret Thatcher (27/41). YouTube.
  3. ↑ "No. 46334". The London Gazette. 28 June 1974. p. 7419.
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