Henry Underhill, Baron Underhill

Henry Underhill, Baron Underhill

Henry Reginall Underhill, Baron Underhill, CBE, (8 May 1914 – 12 March 1993) was a British Labour politician.

Underhill served in the Labour Party as vice chairman and honorary secretary, had been joined in 1930. He became national agent for Labour in 1972 and retired seven years later. In 1982, Underhill was elected deputy leader of Labour in the House of Lords, a post he held for another sever years.

Underhill was invested as a Commander of Order of the British Empire. He was created a life peer with the title Baron Underhill, of Leyton in Greater London on 12 July 1979.

He was married and left a daughter and two sons.

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*cite web | url= http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CEEDF1739F937A25750C0A965958260| title= Obituary| author= "The New York Times"| date= 1993-03-14| accessdate= 2006-10-29


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