Background
He was born in Featherstone, West Yorkshire, the son of Ernest Lofthouse, a farm labourer in Micklefield, and Emma (née Fellows). His father died at the age of 35.
He was born in Featherstone, West Yorkshire, the son of Ernest Lofthouse, a farm labourer in Micklefield, and Emma (née Fellows). His father died at the age of 35.
Featherstone Primary and Secondary School. Leeds University (day release).
At the age of 14, Geoff Lofthouse went down the pit at Ackton Hall Colliery in Featherstone. At age 29, he was the President of the local branch of the National Union of Mineworkers. He went to the University of Leeds, gaining a Bachelor in Political Studies in 1957, when he was 32 years old. In 1962, he became a councillor on Pontefract Borough Council.
He was mayor of Pontefract in 1967, and leader of the council from 1969-1973.
He was Member of Parliament for Pontefract and Castleford from a 1978 by-election until his retirement at the 1997 general election, when he was given a life peerage as Baron Lofthouse of Pontefract, of Pontefract in the County of West Yorkshire. In the House of Commons, he served from 1992 until his retirement as a Deputy Speaker of the House to Betty Boothroyd.
In the Queen"s Birthday Honours 1997 Lofthouse was made a Life Peer as Baron Lofthouse of Pontefract, of Pontefract, in the county of West Yorkshire. Lord Lofthouse died on 1 November 2012, aged 86.
Church of England
47th United Kingdom Parliament. 48th United Kingdom Parliament. 49th United Kingdom Parliament.
50th United Kingdom Parliament.
51st United Kingdom Parliament.
Spouse Sarah (dec’d 1985), 1946. Children: one d.