Baron Simon of Wythenshawe, of Didsbury

Didsbury

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 in the City of Manchester

Manchester

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, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1947 for Ernest Simon, an industrialist and politician. He had previously served as a member of the Manchester City Council

Manchester City Council

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 and as Lord Mayor

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 of Manchester

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 and is chiefly remembered for the slum clearances and housing projects he initiated in the city, notably the Wythenshawe estate

Wythenshawe

Wythenshawe is a district in the south of the city of Manchester, England.Formerly part of the administrative county of Cheshire, in 1931 Wythenshawe was transferred to the City of Manchester, which had begun building a massive housing estate there in the 1920s to resolve the problem of its inner...

. Simon also sat as a Liberal

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 Member of Parliament for Manchester Withington

Manchester Withington (UK Parliament constituency)

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, but joined the Labour Party

Labour Party (UK)

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 in 1946. the title is held by his grandson, the third Baron, who succeeded his father in 2002.

Barons Simon of Wythenshawe (1947)

• Ernest Emil Darwin Simon, 1st Baron Simon of Wythenshawe (1879–1960)
• Roger Simon, 2nd Baron Simon of Wythenshawe
  Roger Simon, 2nd Baron Simon of Wythenshawe
  Roger Simon, 2nd Baron Simon of Wythenshawe was a British solicitor and left wing journalist and political activist. He was one of the founders of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament....
  
  (1913–2002)
• Matthew Simon, 3rd Baron Simon of Wythenshawe (b. 1955)