- Laurence Pavitt
Laurence Anstice Pavitt (
1 February 1914 –14 December 1989 ) was a Labour andCo-operative Party politician in theUnited Kingdom .Pavitt was a lifelong
pacifist and aconscientious objector in theSecond World War . He was secretary of the British Federation of Young Co-operators 1942-46 andgeneral secretary of the Anglo-Chinese Development Society 1946-52. He served as a councillor on theMunicipal Borough of Ilford 1949-52 and was national organiser of theMedical Practitioners' Union 1956-59.Pavitt was
Labour Co-operative Member of Parliament for Willesden West from 1959 to 1974, and for Brent South from 1974 until he retired in 1987. He wasparliamentary private secretary to theForeign Secretary from 1965, and was an Assistant government whip from 1974 to 1976.Sources
* Times Guide to the House of Commons", 1966, 1983 and 1987 editions
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