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Bertie Hazell
CBE
Member of Parliament North Norfolk
In office 15 October 1964 – 18 June 1970
Preceded by
Edwin Gooch
Succeeded by
Ralph Howell
Personal details
Born
(1907-04-18)18 April 1907 Attleborough, Norfolk, England
Died
11 January 2009(2009-01-11) (aged 101) York, England
Political party
Labour
Spouse
Dora Anna Barham
(m. 1936; died 1987)
Children
1
Occupation
President of the National Union of Agricultural Workers
Bertie Hazell, CBE (18 April 1907 – 11 January 2009), also known as Bert Hazell, was a British Labour Party politician and trade union activist.
The son of a Norfolk farm worker, he left school at 14 to work on a farm in Wymondham, where his duties included scaring crows. When agricultural wages slumped after the First World War sparking the Norfolk farm workers' strike in 1923, Hazell became active in the National Union of Agricultural Workers.[1] He worked as a district organiser for the NUAW, 1937–1964.[2]
He unsuccessfully contested the safe Tory parliamentary seat of Barkston Ash in Yorkshire in the 1945 and 1950 elections, before returning to Norfolk to help North Norfolk Labour MP Edwin Gooch. In 1945 he came within 116 votes of victory in Barkston Ash.[3]
He was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for North Norfolk in 1964 by just 53 votes. The constituency was unusual in being an agricultural seat electing Labour MPs since 1945, owing to a history of organised agricultural trade unionism and a working-class rural Labour vote in Norfolk at the time, very atypical of the rest of the country.[4] He was re-elected in 1966, when his majority was 737 votes. He lost his seat at the 1970 general election to the Conservative Ralph Howell who held the seat for 27 years. Subsequently, Labour have never regained Norfolk North, and were relegated to third place when the Liberal Democrats gained the seat in 2001.[5]
As president of the NUAW for 10 years until he retired in 1978, Hazell devoted nearly 60 years to the cause of agricultural workers. He had a lengthy career in the health service including as chair of York Health Authority in the 1980s.[6]
Hazell was made an MBE for services to agriculture in 1946 and a CBE for services as chairman of the regional board for industry in 1962.[7]
Hazell, who reached his 100th birthday in April 2007, was the third longest-living MP in British history; only Theodore Cooke Taylor (102) and Ronald Atkins (104) have lived longer. On 6 November 2008 he overtook Lord Shinwell's record as the longest-living former MP of recent times.[8] Upon Hazell's death, James Allason became the oldest living former MP.
He died on 11 January 2009, aged 101. He was three months short of his 102nd birthday.[9]
^"Workers' hero birthday marked". Diss Mercury. 26 April 2007. Archived from the original on 19 October 2007. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
^Dalyell, Tam (21 January 2009). "Bert Hazell: Trade union leader and Labour MP who championed the cause of agricultural workers". The Independent. Archived from the original on 24 January 2009. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
^"Bert Hazell - President". Country Standard. July 2007. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
^Waller, Robert; Criddle, Byron (2007). The Almanac of British Politics (8 ed.). p. 706. ISBN 978-0-203-94691-6. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
^"Bert Hazell". The Daily Telegraph. 26 January 2009. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
^"Tributes paid to Labour stalwart Bertie Hazell". The Press. 15 January 2009. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
^Roth, Andrew (22 January 2009). "Bertie Hazell". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
^Walker, Tim (4 November 2008). "The longest life in politics". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
^"Hazell, Bertie". Who's Who. A & C Black. Retrieved 10 October 2019. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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