Fred Kershaw, 1st Baron Kershaw

Fred Kershaw, 1st Baron Kershaw OBE (6 November 1881 – 5 February 1961), was a British Labour politician.

Kershaw was the son of John Joseph Kershaw of Prestwich, Lancashire. He was governor of Westminster Hospital, chairman of Gordon Hospital, vice-president of the Workers' Temperance League and a founding member of the Manor House Hospital. In 1931 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.[1] On 20 January 1947 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Kershaw, of Prestwich in the County Palatine of Lancaster.[2] He then served in the Labour government of Clement Attlee as a Lord-in-waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1949 to 1951. He was also a Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords.

Lord Kershaw married Frances Edith, daughter of James Thomas Wigmore, in 1903. She died in 1960. Lord Kershaw survived her by a year and died in February 1961, aged 79. He was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son Herbert.

References
  1. "No. 33675". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1931. p. 9.
  2. "No. 37860". The London Gazette. 21 January 1947. p. 411.

Sources
  • Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
  • Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
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