Fred Mulley

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The Right Honourable The Lord Mulley PC
Secretary of State for Defence
In office 10 September 1976 – 4 May 1979
Prime Minister	James Callaghan
Preceded by	Roy Mason
Succeeded by	Francis Pym
Secretary of State for Education and Science
In office 5 March 1975 – 10 September 1976
Prime Minister	Harold Wilson James Callaghan
Preceded by	Reg Prentice
Succeeded by	Shirley Williams
Minister of Transport
In office 7 March 1974 – 5 March 1975
Prime Minister	Harold Wilson
Preceded by	John Peyton (Transport Industries)
Succeeded by	John Gilbert
Member of Parliament for Sheffield Park
In office 23 February 1950 – 9 June 1983
Preceded by	Thomas Burden
Succeeded by	Constituency Abolished
Personal details
Born	(1918-07-03)3 July 1918
Died	15 March 1995(1995-03-15) (aged 76)
Political party	Labour
Alma mater	Christ Church, Oxford St Catharine's College, Cambridge
Military service
Service/branch	British Army • Worcestershire Regiment
Rank	Sergeant
Battles/wars	World War II

Frederick William Mulley, Baron Mulley PC (3 July 1918 – 15 March 1995) was a British Labour politician, barrister-at-law, and economist.

Mulley attended Warwick School between 1929 and 1936. He served in the Worcestershire Regiment in the Second World War, reaching the rank of sergeant, but was captured in 1940 and spent five years as a prisoner of war in Germany. During this time he obtained a BSc in economics and became a chartered secretary.^[1]

At the end of the war, he received an adult scholarship to Christ Church, Oxford, and after a brief spell on an economics fellowship at the University of Cambridge (1948–50) he trained as a barrister, being called to the Bar in 1954.

Mulley had joined the Labour Party since 1936 and in 1945 he unsuccessfully contested the constituency of Sutton Coldfield. He became Member of Parliament for Sheffield Park in 1950, a position he held until retiring at the 1983 General Election.

During a long career in politics he held many ministerial positions including Minister of Aviation (1965-7), Minister for Disarmament (1967-9), and Minister of Transport (1969–70, 1974-5). While at the Transport Ministry he believed it would be inappropriate to be seen to be a car driver. Although he owned an Austin Maxi, his wife was the sole user of it during this period.^[2]

In 1975 Harold Wilson brought him to the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Education and Science, and in 1976 became Secretary of State for Defence.

He is best remembered for falling asleep during the Queen's Jubilee Review of the Royal Air Force at RAF Finningley in 1977 when there was considerable noise around him. Having a small sleep during exercise was referred to by members of the RAF as having a "Fred Mulley". It was suggested in the satirical magazine Private Eye that Mulley was guilty of treason (then still a capital offence) for having slept with the Queen.

After retiring from the House of Commons in 1983, he was awarded a life peerage as Baron Mulley, of Manor Park in the City of Sheffield in 1984 and held a variety of directorial positions.

A main road in the Lower Don Valley in Sheffield is named after him.

References

↑ Worcestershire Regiment (29th/36th of Foot) Web site
↑ "Election special: Who's hand on the wheel?". Autocar. 141 (nbr 4067): Pages 39–40. 5 October 1974.

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Fred Mulley

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Thomas Burden	Member of Parliament for Sheffield Park 1950–1983	Constituency abolished
Political offices
Preceded by John Peyton as Minister of State for Transport Industries	Minister of Transport 1974–1975	Succeeded by John Gilbert
Preceded by Reg Prentice	Secretary of State for Education and Science 1975–1976	Succeeded by Shirley Williams
Preceded by Roy Mason	Secretary of State for Defence 1976–1979	Succeeded by Francis Pym

v t e Defence Secretaries of the United Kingdom

Ministers for Defence	Winston Churchill Clement Attlee A. V. Alexander Manny Shinwell Winston Churchill The Earl Alexander of Tunis Harold Macmillan Selwyn Lloyd Sir Walter Monckton Anthony Head Duncan Sandys Harold Watkinson Peter Thorneycroft

Secretaries of State for Defence	Peter Thorneycroft Denis Healey The Lord Carrington Ian Gilmour Roy Mason Fred Mulley Francis Pym John Nott Michael Heseltine George Younger Tom King Malcolm Rifkind Michael Portillo George Robertson Geoff Hoon John Reid Des Browne John Hutton Bob Ainsworth Liam Fox Philip Hammond

v t e Callaghan Cabinet

Joel Barnett Tony Benn Albert Booth James Callaghan Anthony Crosland Edmund Dell Lord Elwyn-Jones David Ennals Michael Foot Roy Hattersley Denis Healey Roy Jenkins Harold Lever Roy Mason Bruce Millan John Morris Fred Mulley Stanley Orme David Owen Lord Peart Reg Prentice Merlyn Rees Bill Rodgers Lord Shepherd Peter Shore John Silkin John Smith Eric Varley Shirley Williams

Persondata
Name	Mulley, Frederick
Alternative names
Short description	British politician
Date of birth	3 July 1918
Place of birth
Date of death	15 March 1995
Place of death

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