Arthur Bottomley

The Right Honourable The Lord Bottomley OBE PC
Arthur Bottomley at Panglong Conference (1947)
Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations
In office 18 October 1964 – 1 August 1966
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Prime Minister	Harold Wilson
Preceded by	Duncan Sandys
Succeeded by	Herbert Bowden
Minister of Overseas Development
In office 11 August 1966 – 29 August 1967
Preceded by	Anthony Greenwood
Succeeded by	Reg Prentice
Personal details
Born	7 February 1907
Died	3 November 1995 (aged 88)
Spouse(s)	Dame Bessie Bottomley

Arthur George Bottomley, Baron Bottomley, OBE, PC (7 February 1907 – 3 November 1995) was a British Labour politician, Member of Parliament and minister.

Before entering parliament he was a trade union organiser of the National Union of Public Employees (which later became part of UNISON). From 1929 to 1949 he was a councillor on Walthamstow Borough Council, and in 1945-1946 he was Mayor of Walthamstow. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1941 Birthday Honours.

He was first elected to parliament in the 1945 general election for the Chatham division of Rochester and he held the seat (later renamed Rochester and Chatham) until losing it in the 1959 general election to the Conservative Julian Critchley. He returned to parliament by winning Middlesbrough East in a by-election in 1962 and held the seat, and its successor Middlesbrough, until his retirement in 1983.