Robert Craigmyle Morrison, 1st Baron Morrison (29 October 1881 – 25 December 1953) was a British

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 Labour Co-operative

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 politician.

Born in Aberdeen

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, he was the son of James Morrison. He originally worked as a schoolmaster in the Middlesex

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 suburbs of North London. He became involved in the Labour and Co-Operative movements, and in 1914 was elected to Wood Green Urban District Council

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. In the same year war

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 broke out, and he served as a private in the British Army

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 from 1915 – 1919. In 1919 he returned to local politics when hhe was elected to Middlesex County Council

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.

At the 1922 general election

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, he was elected as Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Tottenham North

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. He lost his seat at the 1931 general election

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 to the Conservative

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 Edward Doran

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, but was re-elected at the 1935 general election

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. After the 1924 general election

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, he served as Parliamentary Private Secretary

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 to the then Leader of the Opposition Ramsay MacDonald

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.

In November 1945, shortly after he had been re-elected at the 1945 general election

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, he was ennobled as Baron Morrison

Baron Morrison

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. The following year, he was appointed as a member of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry

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 which sought a policy to resolve the growing conflict between Jews and Arab

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s in Palestine

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. The committee unanimously recommended a binational state in Palestine.

Morrison married Grace Glossop in 1910, and the couple had two sons. He died in a Tottenham

Tottenham

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 Hospital on Christmas Day 1953 aged 72. His eldest son, Dennis Morrison, succeeded to his title.