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    Sir Richard Stafford Cripps CH QC FRS (24 April 1889 – 21 April 1952) was a British Labour Party politician, barrister, and diplomat. A wealthy lawyer...
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  • efforts in World War II. The mission was headed by a senior minister Stafford Cripps. Cripps belonged to the left-wing Labour Party, which was traditionally...
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  • socialite. She was the daughter of the Right Honourable Sir Stafford Cripps and Dame Isobel Cripps, the wife of Ghanaian lawyer and political activist Nana...
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  • between management and workers, with Cripps making over five hundred visits to factories in order to meet staff. Cripps left the Ministry on 23 May 1945 when...
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  • politician Sir Stafford Cripps. Hall, Christopher (28 August 1993). "Obituary: Sir John Cripps". The Independent. Portraits of Sir John Stafford Cripps at the...
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  • Dame Isobel Cripps, GBE (née Swithinbank; 25 January 1891 – 11 April 1979), also known as Isobel, the Honourable Lady Cripps, was a British overseas aid...
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    of government to retain their seats, along with George Lansbury and Stafford Cripps. Accordingly, Lansbury was elected Leader unopposed with Attlee as...
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  • Sarah Cripps Sir Stafford Cripps, British politician (1889–1952) William Cripps (d. 1848), British politician William Harrison Cripps (1850–1923), British...
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    a delegation to India under Stafford Cripps, the Leader of the House of Commons, in what came to be known as the Cripps Mission. The purpose of the mission...
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    married surgeon William Harrison Cripps, brother to Theresa's husband Charles Cripps, 1st Baron Parmoor. The Cripps family was a wealthy political family...
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  • members, Lord Pethick-Lawrence (Secretary of State for India), Sir Stafford Cripps (President of the Board of Trade), and A. V. Alexander (First Lord...
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    Relations Office. September 1947 – Sir Stafford Cripps becomes Minister of Economic Affairs. Harold Wilson succeeds Cripps as President of the Board of Trade...
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    India, Winston Churchill, then Britain's prime minister, sent Sir Stafford Cripps, leader of the House of Commons, with an offer of dominion status to...
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    leading up to the disaster and Cripps argued the Inspectorate had an interest in turning a blind eye to safety failings. Cripps went so far as to describe...
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    Morrison and Cripps intrigued to replace Attlee with Bevin as Prime Minister; Bevin refused to play along, and Attlee bought off Cripps by giving him...
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    in the Attlee ministry of 1945–51. Attlee, Morrison, Ernest Bevin, Stafford Cripps, and initially Hugh Dalton formed the "Big Five" who dominated those...
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    Major the Hon. Leonard Harrison Cripps, third son of the first Baron. The Labour politician the Hon. Sir Stafford Cripps was the youngest son of the first...
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    representative of Bristol East in Parliament and H.M. Government was Sir Stafford Cripps, MP (Lab) 1931–1950, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1947...
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    Exchequer Stafford Cripps' worries that Treasury officials were too "liberal" and too reluctant to implement socialist measures. Like Cripps and Dalton...
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  • – Pe Maung Tin, Burma-based scholar and educator (d. 1973) 1889 – Stafford Cripps, English academic and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (d. 1952)...
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  • as the Cripps question, this way of formulating the issue of inventive step in English law was deployed for many years thereafter. The Cripps question...
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    tried to warn Joseph Stalin via the British ambassador to Moscow, Stafford Cripps, but to no avail as Stalin did not trust Churchill. The night before...
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    followed their exploits.” In March 1942, Churchill sent Stafford Cripps on a mission to India ("the Cripps Mission") with an offer based on full Dominion status...
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    subsequently became Minister of Aircraft Production until replaced by Sir Stafford Cripps in November 1942. Later, Llewellin served on the Combined Policy Committee...
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    leader by his deputy, Clement Attlee, who, along with Lansbury and Stafford Cripps, had been one of only three former Labour Ministers to be re-elected...
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  • childless, but Lady Parmoor strongly influenced her youngest stepson, Stafford Cripps. Lady Parmoor acted as president of the World YWCA between 1924 and...
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    of a Minister for Economic Affairs in 1947, an office occupied by Stafford Cripps before he was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer. The office was...
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  • Business School Stafford Cripps (1889–1952), British politician Stafford Huyler, cartoonist who created the webcomic NetBoy Stafford Repp (1918–1974)...
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    Henry Addington for the Tory Party; Robert Lowe for the Liberal Party; Stafford Cripps and Hugh Gaitskell for the Labour Party; and Geoffrey Howe and Rishi...
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    November 1950, he was selected to succeed Stafford Cripps as the Labour candidate for Bristol South East, after Cripps stood down because of ill-health. He...
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