George Brown, Baron George-Brown
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The Right Honourable The Lord George-Brown PC |
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| Leader of the Opposition | |
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In office 18 January 1963 – 14 February 1963 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Prime Minister | Harold Macmillan |
| Preceded by | Hugh Gaitskell |
| Succeeded by | Harold Wilson |
| First Secretary of State | |
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In office 16 October 1964 – 11 August 1966 |
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| Prime Minister | Harold Wilson |
| Preceded by | Rab Butler (1963) |
| Succeeded by | Michael Stewart |
| Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | |
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In office 11 August 1966 – 15 March 1968 |
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| Prime Minister | Harold Wilson |
| Preceded by | Michael Stewart |
| Succeeded by | Michael Stewart |
| Secretary of State for Economic Affairs | |
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In office 16 October 1964 – 11 August 1966 |
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| Prime Minister | Harold Wilson |
| Preceded by | office created |
| Succeeded by | Michael Stewart |
| Shadow Home Secretary | |
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In office 12 March 1962 – 15 February 1963 |
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| Leader | Hugh Gaitskell |
| Preceded by | Patrick Gordon Walker |
| Succeeded by | Frank Soskice |
| Deputy Leader of the Labour Party | |
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In office 15 July 1960 – 19 June 1970 |
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| Leader |
Hugh Gaitskell Harold Wilson |
| Preceded by | Nye Bevan |
| Succeeded by | Roy Jenkins |
| Minister of Works | |
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In office 26 April 1951 – 26 October 1951 |
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| Prime Minister | Clement Attlee |
| Preceded by | Richard Stokes |
| Succeeded by | David Eccles |
| Member of Parliament for Belper | |
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In office 5 July 1945 – 18 June 1970 |
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| Preceded by | Herbert Wragg |
| Succeeded by | Geoffrey Stewart-Smith |
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2 September 1914 London, England |
| Died | 2 June 1985 (aged 70) Truro, Cornwall, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) |
Sophia Levene (1911-1990; married 1937, separated 1982)
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| Religion | Anglo-Catholic, then Roman Catholic |
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a. ^ Office vacant from 18 October 1963 to 16 October 1964.
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George Alfred Brown, Baron George-Brown, PC (2 September 1914 – 2 June 1985) was a British Labour politician who served as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1960 to 1970 and also in several Cabinet posts, including Foreign Secretary during the Labour government of the 1960s. He was a leader of the Labour Party's trade union right wing, and an effective election campaigner. Ultimately, however, he was unable to cope with the pressures of high office without excessive drinking. He was always known simply as "George Brown" and, upon being granted a peerage in November 1970, he insisted on combining his first name and surname to create the title Baron George-Brown of Jevington in the County of Sussex.
Brown was born at Flat 22, I Block, Peabody Buildings, Duke Street, Lambeth, in his maternal grandmother's flat, which was in a working class housing estate built by the Peabody Trust, a housing charity. Soon after the birth, his family left and moved to the Peabody Trust block at Peabody Square, Blackfriars Road, Southwark, near Waterloo station. His father, also called George Brown, had worked as a grocer's packer, lorry driver and served in World War I as a chauffeur to senior British Army officers.
Brown attended Gray Street Elementary School in Blackfriars where he did well enough to pass an entrance examination to the West Square Central School, a junior grammar school and now part of a conservation area. Brown had already adopted his parents' left-wing views and later claimed to have delivered leaflets for the Labour Party in the 1922 general election when he was 8 years old.
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