Leslie Haden-Guest, 1st Baron Haden-Guest

Leslie Haden Haden-Guest, 1st Baron Haden-Guest (10 March 1877, Oldham – 20 August 1960) was a British author, journalist, doctor and Labour Party politician.

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He served in the Boer War, World War I and World War II, winning a Military Cross.
He was the founder of the Anglo-French Committee of the Red Cross and the Order of St. John
He was a member of the London County Council for Woolwich (East), 1919-1922
He was a Labour MP for Southwark North, 1923-1927 and for Islington North, 1937-1950 and founded the Labour Party Commonwealth Group. He was the first Jew to stand for Parliament as a Labour candidate.^[1]
He was created a peer in 1950 and was a Lord-in-Waiting to the King, February-October 1951 and thereafter an Assistant Opposition Whip in the House of Lords.

He married three times; his second wife, Muriel Carmel, was the daughter of Albert Goldsmid.

Who was Who
This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.
Craig, F. W. S. [1969] (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, 3rd edition, Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Edward Anthony Strauss	Member of Parliament for Southwark North 1923–1927	Succeeded by Edward Anthony Strauss
Preceded by Albert William Goodman	Member of Parliament for Islington North 1938–1950	Succeeded by Ronw Moelwyn Hughes
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by (new creation)	Baron Haden-Guest 1950–1960	Succeeded by Stephen Haden-Guest