Herbert Morrison
Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth CH PC was a British Labour politician who held a variety of senior positions in the Cabinet.
Morrison was the son of a police constable and was born at 37, Mordaunt Street, Stockwell Lambeth, London. As a baby he lost the sight in his right eye due to infection. He attended Stockwell Road Primary School and left school atto become an errand boy. His early politics were radical, and he briefly flirted with the Social Democratic Federation over the Independent Labour Party . As a conscientious objector, he worked in a market garden in Letchworth in World War One where he met his wife, a handweaver and embroiderer.
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