Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker
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The Right Honourable The Lord Noel-Baker PC |
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| Minister of Fuel and Power | |
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In office 15 February 1950 – 31 October 1951 |
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| Preceded by | Hugh Gaitskell |
| Succeeded by | Office Abolished |
| Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations | |
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In office 7 October 1947 – 28 February 1950 |
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| Preceded by | The Viscount Addison |
| Succeeded by | Patrick Gordon Walker |
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Philip John Noel-Baker 1 November 1889 Brondesbury Park, London |
| Died | 8 October 1982 (aged 92) Westminster |
| Alma mater |
Haverford College King's College, Cambridge |
| Awards | Nobel Peace Prize |
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Representing  Great Britain
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1920 Antwerp | 1500 m |
Philip John Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker (1 November 1889 – 8 October 1982), born Philip John Baker, was a British politician, diplomat, academic, outstanding amateur athlete, and renowned campaigner for disarmament. He carried the British team flag and won a silver medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1959.
Noel-Baker is the only person to have won an Olympic medal and received a Nobel Prize. He was a Labour member of parliament from 1929 to 1931 and from 1936 to 1970, serving in several ministerial offices and the cabinet. He became a life peer in 1977.
He was born in Brondesbury Park, London, the sixth of seven children of the Canadian-born Quaker, Joseph Allen Baker and the Scottish-born Elizabeth Balmer Moscrip. His father had moved to England in 1876 to establish a manufacturing business and served as a Progressive Party member of the London County Council from 1895 to 1906 and as Liberal Party member of the House of Commons for East Finsbury from 1905 to 1918.
Baker was educated at Ackworth School, Bootham School and then in the US at the Quaker-associated Haverford College in Pennsylvania. He studied at King's College, Cambridge from 1908 to 1912. As well as being an excellent student, obtaining a second in Part I history and a first in Part II economics, he was President of the Cambridge Union Society in 1912 and President of the Cambridge University Athletic Club from 1910 to 1912.
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