James Chuter Ede

James Chuter Ede, Baron Chuter-Ede, CH, PC (September 11, 1882 – November 11, 1965) was a British Labour politician, born in Epsom in Surrey.

Chuter Ede's father was a shopkeeper of Unitarian religious convictions. He studied at Christ's College, Cambridge and worked as a teacher (1905-1914), after which he was active within the National Union of Teachers. He served between 1920 and 1927 on Epsom Urban District Council and Surrey County Council and was charter mayor of Epsom and Ewell in 1937.

He was first elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Mitcham, at a by-election in March 1923. However, he lost the seat in December at the 1923 general election.

He returned to Parliament at the 1929 general election, for the Tyneside seat of South Shields, but was defeated again at the 1931 election. He was re-elected at the 1935 general election, and held the seat until his retirement from the Commons at the 1964 general election.

In the wartime coalition he held junior ministerial office as Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education. He was Home Secretary in the 1945 Labour government of Clement Attlee, and Leader of the House of Commons in 1951. He was closely involved in the drafting of the Butler Education Act and the Criminal Justice Act 1948. In 1964 he left the Commons and was created a life peer as Baron Chuter-Ede, of Epsom in the County of Surrey.

Chuter Ede Education Centre in South Shields is named after him. It was formerly a comprehensive school.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by: Thomas Cato Worsfold	Member of Parliament for Mitcham 1923–1923	Succeeded by: Sir Richard James Meller
Preceded by: Edward Augustine St. Aubyn Harney	Member of Parliament for South Shields 1929–1931	Succeeded by: Harcourt Johnstone
Preceded by: Harcourt Johnstone	Member of Parliament for South Shields 1935–1964	Succeeded by: Arthur Blenkinsop
Political offices
Preceded by: The Lord Somervell	Home Secretary 1945-1951	Succeeded by: Sir David Maxwell Fyfe
Preceded by: Herbert Morrison	Leader of the House of Commons 1951	Succeeded by: Harry Crookshank