Donald Kaberry

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Sir Donald Kaberry, Baron Kaberry of Abel (18 August 1907 – 13 March 1991) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

Kaberry was educated at Leeds Grammar School and became a solicitor and company director. He served as a councillor on Leeds City Council 1930-50, except for a period during World War II when he enlisted in the Royal Artillery and commanded a battery at Dunkirk, receiving a mention in dispatches. After the war he was, as lieutenant-colonel, president of the military governing board at Hamburg.

Kaberry was Member of Parliament for Leeds North West from 1950 to 1983, preceding Dr. Keith Hampson. He was a member of the Speaker's panel of chairmen in the House of Commons and an assistant government whip from 1952 to 1955 and parliamentary secretary at the Board of Trade 1955. He served as Conservative Party Vice-Chairman Organisation, 1955-61, and chairman of the Association of Conservative Clubs in 1961. He was created a life peer as Baron Kaberry of Adel, of Adel in the City of Leeds in 1983.