Education
Short was educated at College of the Venerable Bede, Durham University.
Short was educated at College of the Venerable Bede, Durham University.
He died just under a year later, aged 99. He did military service as a Captain in the Durham Light Infantry of the British Army during the Second World War. Short was elected a councillor on Newcastle City Council where he led the Labour Group.
He was first elected to Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne Central at the 1951 general election.
Short was responsible for the outlawing of pirate radio stations such as Radio Caroline. Following the government campaign against the pirates previously led by Tony Benn, his predecessor in the post of Postmaster-General (then the minister with responsibility for broadcasting), Short was responsible for introducing the bill which became the Marine et cetera
Broadcasting and Offences Acting in 1967. In a 1982 interview for British Broadcasting Corporation Radio"s The Story of People’s Radio, Short admitted having enjoyed listening to some of those stations, particularly Radio 390.
As, Short ordered the creation of the 1966 England Winners stamp to celebrate England"s victory in the 1966 World Cup.
He subsequently served as 1968-1970, and became Labour"s deputy leader on 25 April 1972 after Roy Jenkins resigned over differences on European policy. Short defeated Foot and Anthony Crosland in the same vote. Short"s new seniority was reflected in his appointment as – though not Deputy Prime Minister – 1974-1976, but he did not have the stature to mount a leadership bid himself on Wilson"s retirement.
He was not offered a Cabinet post on James Callaghan"s election as Premier.
His resignation letter said that the time had come for him to step aside for a younger manitoba This was sarcasm, as he was replaced by Michael Foot, who was only seven months younger than himself.
Short was also nine months younger than Callaghan, who had dropped him from the cabinet. He was made a life peer as Baron Glenamara, of Glenridding in the County of Cumbria on 28 January 1977, when he left the Commons.
One year before, he was appointed Chairman of Cable and Wireless Limited, which was at the time a nationalised industry.
He served in that post until 1980. His name lives on in the House of Commons with the term "Short Money". This refers to funds paid by the Government to help run the Parliamentary office of the Leader of the Opposition.
The then Mr Short pioneered this idea during his time in the House.
He was made a Freeman of the City of Newcastle in 2001 "in recognition of his eminent and outstanding public service" and served as Chancellor of the University of Northumbria, a post he retired from in 2005.
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He was Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Newcastle upon Tyne Central and served as a minister during the Labour Governments of Harold Wilson.
Following the death of James Allason on 16 June 2011, Short was the oldest living former member of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.
At the time of his death he was the oldest member of the House of Lords. As a life peer he was a member of the House of Lords, although he stopped attending regularly a few years before his death.