NATHAN, HARRY LOUIS, BARON
- NATHAN, HARRY LOUIS, BARON
- NATHAN, HARRY LOUIS, BARON (1889–1963), English lawyer and
politician. Born in London, the son of a fine arts publisher, Nathan was
educated at St. Paul's school before becoming a solicitor. He fought in
Gallipoli, Egypt, and France during World War I. In the
1920s he became legal advisor to the British Zionist Organization and to
many Jewish bodies in Palestine. From 1929 to 1934 he was a Liberal
member of Parliament and then switched and was a Labour member of
Parliament from 1934 to 1935 and from 1937 to 1940. Following the
outbreak of World War II Nathan became chairman of the
National Defense Public Interest Committee. He was elevated to the House
of Lords in 1940 as Baron Nathan and from 1946 to 1948 was minister of
civil aviation in the postwar Labour government. Later he was
departmental chairman of the governmental committee on the law of
customs and excise and chairman of the governmental committee to
investigate the law and practice of charitable trusts, which led to a
new act. Lord Nathan was an active figure in Jewish communal affairs as
a member of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, and president of the
European Committee of the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth
maccabiah . He was also prominent in national civic affairs as
chairman of the Royal Geographical Society and of the Royal Society of
Arts. Lord Nathan wrote Medical Negligence (1957) and
The Charities Act, 1960 (1962). His wife,
ELEANOR (Stettauer; 1892–1972), was the second female
chairperson of the London County Council in 1947–48.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
H.M. Hyde, Strong for Service: The Life of Lord Nathan of
Churt (1968). ADD. BIBLIOGRAPHY:
ODNB online.
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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