Barnett Janner

Barnett Janner, Baron Janner (20 June 1892 – 4 May 1982) was a Lithuanian-born British politician who was elected as a Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) and later as a Labour MP.

Janner was born to a Litvak family in Luokė in the Kovno Governorate of the Russian Empire, in what is now modern-day Lithuania. He was the son of Joseph and Gertrude Janner. At the age of nine months, his family, who were Orthodox Jews, moved to Barry, Glamorgan, Wales, where his father opened a furniture shop.

Janner was educated at the local school before obtaining a scholarship to attend University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire at Cardiff. He was President of the students' union and edited the college magazine. He graduated with a BA in English and mathematics in 1914, before serving in the Royal Garrison Artillery during the First World War. Having studied law before the war, he was admitted as solicitor in 1919 and established a legal practice in Cardiff.

Janner entered politics in 1921 when he stood unsuccessfully for election to Cardiff City Council as a candidate of the Comrades of the Great War. Three years later he had joined the Liberal Party, but again failed to gain a seat on the council. In 1926 he was elected to the Board of Deputies of British Jews, and subsequently became a member of the executive of the British Zionist Federation.

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