George Brown, Baron George Brown
George Alfred Brown, Baron GeorgeBrown, PC was a British Labour politician who served as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1960 to 1970 and also in a number of Cabinet positions, most notably as Foreign Secretary during the Labour government of the 1960s. He was a leader of the Labour Partys trade union right wing, and an effective election campaigner. Ultimately, however, he was unable to cope with the pressures of high office without excessive drinking. He was always known simply as George Brown and, in order that this name continued to be used after he was granted a peerage in November 1970, he insisted on combining his first name and surname to create the title Lord GeorgeBrown of Jevington in the County of Sussex.
Brown was born in his maternal grandmothers flat, which was in a working class housing estate in Lambeth built by the Peabody Trust, a housing charity. His father had worked as a grocers packer, lorry driver and served in World War I as a chauffeur to senior British Army officers. Brown attended Gray Street Elementary School in Blackfriars where he did well enough to pass an entrance examination to the West Square Central School, a junior grammar school and now part of a conservation area. Brown had already adopted his parents leftwing views and later claimed to have delivered leaflets for the Labour Party in the 1922 general election when he wasyears old.
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