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George Darling, Baron Darling of Hillsborough, PC (20 July 1905 – 18 October 1985) was a politician in the United Kingdom. He was
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for Sheffield Hillsborough from 1950 to 1974.


Early life and education

Darling's grandfather, Thomas Darling, was agent for
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, Liberal MP for
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from 1900 to 1910. He was educated at elementary school in
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, and started work at 14 in the railway sheds of the town.Graham, E., "Peers of the past - a doughty fighter for consumer rights", ''
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'', 27 May 2008. After being made redundant in 1926 he matriculated at
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, before going on to attend
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, where he became chair of the
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; he graduated with a degree in economics in 1930, gaining a lower-class second in Part I of the tripos and a third in Part II.


Career

After Cambridge Darling chose to enter journalism, before becoming the head of research and information at the
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from 1930 to 1937. He then joined the ''
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'' until 1942 before becoming industrial correspondent for the
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reporting team from 1942 to 1949. He wrote several books on the co-operative movement. Darling contested
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without success in 1935. He was elected for Hillsborough in 1950, succeeding A. V. Alexander, then the best known Co-operative MP. Darling was a party spokesman in opposition on
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subjects and consumer protection. Following
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's 1964 election victory, Darling became
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at the Board of Trade, stepping down in 1968. He was President of the Institute of Trading Standards Administration (today the
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) and secured legislation regulating car insurance and the descriptions of consumer goods. He was appointed a
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in 1966. Darling retired from the
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at the February 1974 general election. On 3 July of the same year, he was created a
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as Baron Darling of Hillsborough, ''of
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in the County of
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''. Darling was a member of the Council of the National Fund for
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Research.


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* 1905 births 1985 deaths Alumni of the University of Liverpool Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge Labour Co-operative MPs for English constituencies Darling of Hillsborough Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Ministers in the Wilson governments, 1964–1970 UK MPs 1950–1951 UK MPs 1951–1955 UK MPs 1955–1959 UK MPs 1959–1964 UK MPs 1964–1966 UK MPs 1966–1970 UK MPs 1970–1974 UK MPs who were granted peerages Life peers created by Elizabeth II {{Life-peer-stub