Bert Hazell

Bert Hazell
British Member of Parliament
In office 1964 – 1970
Preceded by	Edwin Gooch
Succeeded by	Ralph Howell
Constituency	North Norfolk
Born	April 18 1907 (1907--) (age 100) Attleborough, Norfolk, England
Political party	Labour
Occupation	President of the National Union of Agricultural Workers

Bert Hazell CBE (born April 18, 1907), also known as Bertie Hazell, is a retired British Labour Party politician.

He was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for North Norfolk in 1964. The constituency had the rare distinction of being an agricultural seat electing Labour MPs since 1945, owing to a history of organised agricultural trade unionism and a working-class rural Labour vote in Norfolk at the time, very untypical of the rest of the country. Hazell himself was the president of the National Union of Agricultural Workers. He lost his seat after six years, however, at the 1970 general election to the Conservative candidate Ralph Howell. Subsequently Labour have never regained Norfolk North, and were relegated to third place while the Liberal Democrats eventually gained the seat in 2001.

Hazell, who reached his 100th birthday in April 2007, is the oldest living person to have served as an MP in the United Kingdom. Upon the death of Baron Renton in May 2007, Hazell became the last surviving MP in the United Kingdom to have been born in the 1900s.

References

• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.
• Who's Who 2007
• The Almanac of British Politics by Robert Waller and Byron Criddle
• Diss Mercury - Worker's Hero Birthday Marked

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