Cyril Hamnett, Baron Hamnett (20 May 1906 – 17 March 1980)[1] was a British journalist and politician.

He was the son of James Henry Hamnett and was educated at Manchester Technical School.[2] In 1950 and in the following year, he contested Knutsford unsuccessfully for Labour.[3]

On 6 July 1970, for his services to the Cooperative movement, he was created a life peer with the title Baron Hamnett, of Warrington, in the County Palatine of Lancaster.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Leigh Rayment - Peerage". Archived from the original on 8 June 2008. Retrieved 3 December 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ↑ Charles Roger Dod & Robert Phipps Dod (1976). Dod's Parliamentary Companion. Dod's Parliamentary Companion Ltd. p. 138.
  3. ↑ Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom (1953). Political Studies. Vol. I. Clarendon Press. p. 125.
  4. ↑ "No. 45144". The London Gazette. 7 July 1970. p. 7484.


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