Joseph Kenworthy, 10th Baron Strabolgi

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Joseph Montague Kenworthy, 10th Baron Strabolgi (1886-1953), was a Liberal Member of Parliament and later a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.

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[edit] Education and Naval Service

Strabolgi was educated at the Royal Naval Academy, Winchester, joined the Royal Navy in 1902 and left the service in 1920 with the rank of lieutenant-commander, after serving in the Admiralty war staff in London. However, during the Second World War he went out to Gibraltar as Assistant Chief of Naval Staff.

[edit] Politician

He was a Member of Parliament for the Liberal Party from 1919 to 1926 and then for the Labour Party from 1926 to 1931. In 1934, he succeeded his father as Lord Strabolgi, and was the opposition (that is, Labour Party) chief whip in the House of Lords from 1938 to 1942.

In the post-war Labour government, he was Chief Government Whip in the House of Lords.

When he died in 1953, he was succeeded by David Montague de Burgh Kenworthy, 11th Baron Strabolgi, another left-wing politician and member of the Labour Party.

[edit] Writer

Lord Strabolgi was an active supporter of the movement for the independence of India, and during the Second World War, he wrote numerous articles on the war, especially the war at sea. These include Secret Weapons in Modern World (27 April 1940) and What’s Wrong with the British Army? in Colliers magazine (22 August 1942).

[edit] Books by Lord Strabolgi

His books include -

  • Peace or war? (with a foreword by H.G. Wells, Boni & Liveright, New York, 1927)
  • India, A Warning (E. Mathews & Marrot, London, 1931)
  • The Campaign in the Low Countries: the first full-length account of the epic struggle in Holland and Belgium (London 1940)
  • The Battle of the River Plate (Hutchinson & Co., London, 1940)
  • Freedom of the Seas (jointly with Sir George Young)
  • Our Daily Pay: the Economics of Plenty
  • Sailors, Statesmen and Others: an Autobiography
  • The Real Navy
  • Narvik and After
  • From Gibraltar to Suez: a study of the Italian Campaign
  • Singapore and After
  • Sea Power in the Second World War

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