Jack Ashley, Baron Ashley of Stoke
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The Right Honourable The Lord Ashley of Stoke CH PC |
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| Member of the House of Lords | |
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In office 1992 – 20 April 2012 |
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Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent South |
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In office 31 March 1966 – 9 April 1992 |
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| Preceded by | Ellis Smith |
| Succeeded by | George Stevenson |
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6 December 1922 Widnes, Lancashire, England |
| Died | 20 April 2012 (aged 89) |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater |
Ruskin College Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge |
Jack Ashley, Baron Ashley of Stoke, CH, PC (6 December 1922 – 20 April 2012) was a British politician. He was a Labour Member of Parliament in the House of Commons for Stoke-on-Trent South for 26 years, from 1966 to 1992, and subsequently sat in the House of Lords. He was a long-time campaigner for disabled people.
Ashley was born in Widnes and educated at Warrington Road School. He left school at 14 to work in the chemical process industry. He became a crane driver and was a shop steward in the Chemical Workers' Union, a union of which he was the youngest executive member aged 22. He served in the Army in the Second World War, and then won a scholarship to study at Ruskin College, where he received a Diploma in Economics and Political Science in 1948.
He continued his studies at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he was President of the Cambridge Union Society in 1951. He worked as a research worker for the National Union of General and Municipal Workers and then worked as a radio producer for the North American Service and BBC Home Service. In 1956 he joined the BBC television service and worked as a producer on Panorama and Monitor.
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