Background
He was born in Prestwich, Manchester of Irish parents.
He was born in Prestwich, Manchester of Irish parents.
Delargy was educated in England, Paris and Rome and worked as a teacher, journalist, labourer and insurance official
He was a Manchester City Councillor 1937-1946. He was a Labour whip 1950-1952. His successor in the subsequent by-election was Oonagh McDonald.
Delargy played an interesting but minor part in the aftermath of the John Bodkin Adams trial.
Adams, a doctor, was suspected of being a serial killer but was controversially found not guilty in 1957. On 8 November 1956 however, the Attorney-General Reginald Manningham-Buller who was to prosecute the case, handed a confidential Scotland Yard report into Adams" activities to Doctor McRae, Secretary of the British Medical Association (British Medical Association), effectively the doctors" trade union in Britain.
The prosecution"s most valuable document was then copied and passed to Adams" defence counsel After a tip-off from a Daily Mail journalist, on 28 November Delargy (in conjunction with Member of Parliament Stephen Swingler) addressed a question to the Attorney-General to be answered in the House of Commons on 3 December regarding Manningham-Buller"s contacts with the General Medical Council and British Medical Association within the last six months.
Manningham-Buller was absent on the day in question but gave a written reply stating he had "had no communications with the General Medical Council within the last six months." He avoided referring to the British Medical Association directly and therefore avoided lying, though it could be argued, deliberately misled the House.
Adams was eventually acquitted of the murder of Edith Alice Morrell but was suspected by Home Office pathologist Francis Camps of killing 163 patients.
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Delargy was Member of Parliament for Manchester Platting from 1945 to 1950, and for Thurrock from 1950 until his death in 1976. He was a member of the Anti-Partition of Ireland League, secretary of the Friends of Ireland, and participated in the Manchester Martyrs commemoration in Manchester in 1949 which was addressed by Éamon de Valera.