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Stafford Cripps. Sir Richard Stafford Cripps CH QC FRS [1] (24 April 1889 – 21 April 1952) was a British Labour Party politician, barrister, and diplomat. A wealthy lawyer by background, Cripps first entered Parliament at a by-election in January 1931, and was one of a handful of Labour frontbenchers to retain his seat at the October general ...
Sir Stafford Cripps (born April 24, 1889, London, England—died April 21, 1952, Zürich, Switzerland) was a British statesman chiefly remembered for his rigid austerity program as chancellor of the exchequer (1947–50).
Apr 28, 2015 · How Winston Churchill dealt with Stafford Cripps provides insight into how he kept his own “team of rivals” working together in a war that Britain had to win. The first move was to partially fulfil Cripps’s ambitions by bringing him into the War Cabinet as Leader of the House of Commons.
May 11, 2018 · Cripps, Sir Stafford (1889–1952). Cripps was a successful barrister before he was appointed Labour solicitor-general in 1930. Along with Lansbury and Attlee, he became the most important Labour MP to survive the 1931 electoral débâcle.
From June 1940 to January 1942 he served as the British Ambassador to the Soviet Union. Cripps succeeded in bringing Russia and Britain together as allies during the war, and consequently, in February 1942, Churchill brought Cripps into the government as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons.
Aug 8, 2024 · Cripps Mission (1942): The falling of Singapore and Rangoon in the Second World War compelled Winston Churchill and the British war cabinet to send a high-powered mission to India under the supervision of Stafford Cripps.
I. EXPELLED from the British Labor Party less than three years ago for demanding a united front with the British Communists, today Lord Privy Seal and spokesman in the House of Commons for the...
Sep 26, 2024 · Overview. Sir Stafford Cripps. (1889—1952) politician and lawyer. Quick Reference. (1889–1952) British politician on the left of the Labour Party, who as chancellor of the exchequer (1947–50) introduced austere measures to deal with Britain's postwar foreign exchange crisis. He was knighted in 1930.
Apr 24, 2021 · Sir Richard Stafford Cripps (1889–1952), politician and lawyer, was the youngest child of successful barrister, Conservative MP and Labour cabinet minister Charles Cripps. Stafford received a staunchly Christian but undogmatic education.
Jun 1, 1985 · A fascinating monograph, based in part on new evidence from official and private papers, dealing with Stafford Cripps, the radical dissenter in British politics and a longtime proponent of close Anglo-Soviet relations.
