Walter Harold Alldritt (4 July 1918 – 27 July 1990) was a British Labour politician. Alldritt was educated at St Francis de Sales Catholic Junior School, and the

University of Liverpool The University of Liverpool (abbreviated UOL) is a Public university, public research university in Liverpool, England. Founded in 1881 as University College Liverpool, Victoria University (United Kingdom), Victoria University, it received Ro ...

. He served in the Armed Forces during

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, then became a trade union official. From 1955 to 1967, he represented the Sandhills ward on

Liverpool City Council Liverpool City Council is the Local government in England, local authority for the City status in the United Kingdom, city of Liverpool in Merseyside, England. Liverpool has had a local authority since 1207, which has been reformed on numerous ...

. He also served as president of the Liverpool Labour Party and Trades Council, at the time, the youngest person to have held the post. He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for

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at a

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in 1964, and held the seat until his

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in 1971. In 1970, Alldritt was appointed as regional secretary of the

National Union of General and Municipal Workers The GMB is a general union, general trade union in the United Kingdom which has more than 560,000 members. Its members work in nearly all industrial sectors, in retail, security, schools, distribution, the utilities, social care, the National He ...

for Liverpool, North Wales and Northern Ireland, serving until 1981.

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* 1918 births 1990 deaths GMB (trade union)-sponsored MPs Alldritt, Walker UK MPs 1964–1966 UK MPs 1966–1970 UK MPs 1970–1974 Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Liverpool constituencies British military personnel of World War II {{England-Labour-UK-MP-stub