Frank Soskice, Baron Stow Hill
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The Right Honourable The Lord Stow Hill PC QC |
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| Lord Privy Seal | |
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In office 23 December 1965 – 6 April 1966 |
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| Prime Minister | Harold Wilson |
| Preceded by | Frank Pakenham |
| Succeeded by | Frank Pakenham |
| Home Secretary | |
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In office 18 October 1964 – 23 December 1965 |
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| Prime Minister | Harold Wilson |
| Preceded by | Henry Brooke |
| Succeeded by | Roy Jenkins |
| Shadow Home Secretary | |
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In office 15 February 1963 – 18 October 1964 |
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| Leader | Harold Wilson |
| Preceded by | George Brown |
| Succeeded by | Edward Boyle |
| Attorney General for England and Wales | |
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In office 24 April 1951 – 26 October 1951 |
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| Prime Minister | Clement Attlee |
| Preceded by | Sir Hartley Shawcross |
| Succeeded by | Sir Lionel Heald |
| Solicitor General for England and Wales | |
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In office 4 August 1945 – 24 April 1951 |
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| Prime Minister | Clement Attlee |
| Preceded by | Sir Walter Monckton |
| Succeeded by | Sir Lynn Ungoed-Thomas |
| Member of Parliament for Newport | |
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In office 6 July 1956 – 31 March 1966 |
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| Preceded by | Peter Freeman |
| Succeeded by | Roy Hughes |
| Member of Parliament for Sheffield Neepsend | |
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In office 23 February 1950 – 26 May 1955 |
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| Preceded by | Harry Morris |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Member of Parliament for Birkenhead East | |
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In office 5 July 1945 – 23 February 1950 |
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| Preceded by | Henry Graham White |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 July 1902 |
| Died | 1 January 1979 (aged 76) |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
Frank Soskice, Baron Stow Hill, PC, QC (23 July 1902 – 1 January 1979) was a British lawyer and Labour Party politician.
Soskice's father was the exiled Russian revolutionary journalist David Soskice; his mother was the granddaughter of artist Ford Madox Brown, niece of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and sister of Ford Madox Ford. Soskice was educated at the Froebel Demonstration School, St Paul's School, London, and Balliol College, Oxford. He studied law and was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1926. He served in the British Army with the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry during World War II.
Following the war, he was elected to parliament as a Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Birkenhead East in the 1945 general election, and became Solicitor General, receiving the customary knighthood, in the government of Clement Attlee, serving in that office throughout Attlee's government. He was also, briefly, UK delegate to the United Nations General Assembly. As Solicitor General, Soskice was viewed as an important advocate for the government in the House of Commons. His constituency was abolished in the 1950 election, when he unsuccessfully fought Bebington, but he was soon returned to the House of Commons at a by-election in the Sheffield Neepsend constituency, where the sitting MP Harry Morris stood down to make way for Soskice. In April 1951, he became Attorney General.
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