Information AboutFred Mulley |
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A pupil at Warwick School between 1929 and 1936, he served in the Worcestershire Regiment in the Second World War , but was captured in 1940 and spent five years as a prisoner of war in Germany . During this time he obtained a BSc in Economics and became a Chartered Secretary. At the end of the war, he received an Adult Scholarship to Christ Church College, Oxford , and after a brief spell on an economics fellowship at the University Of Cambridge (1948-50) he trained as a barrister, being called to the Bar in 1954 . A member of the Labour Party since 1936 , he unsuccessfully contested the constituency of Sutton Coldfield in 1945, and became Member Of Parliament for Sheffield Park in 1950 , a position he held until retiring at the 1983 General Election . During a long career in politics he held a variety of ministerial positions including Minister Of Aviation (1965-7), Minister For Disarmament (1967-9), and Minister Of Transport (1969-70, 1974-5). In 1975 Harold Wilson brought him to the Cabinet as Secretary Of State For Education And Science , and in 1976 became Secretary Of State For Defence . After retiring from the House Of Commons in 1983 , he was awarded a life peerage in 1984 and held a variety of directorial positions. There is a main road named after him in the Lower Don Valley in Sheffield. |
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