Gerry Reynolds (British politician)
British Labour politician (1927-1969)
Gerald William Reynolds (17 July 1927 – 7 June 1969) was a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Islington North from 1958 until his death.
Background
Reynolds was born Brentford, Middlesex, in 1927, and was educated in Acton. He was diagnosed with kidney disease when he was fourteen, and at the time was given only three months to live. He went on to attend the Ealing School of Art.
Political career
Reynolds began his political career on the Acton Borough Council, to which he was elected in 1949. He served as mayor of Acton from 1961 to 1962. He was elected as the Member of Parliament for the constituency of Islington North in a 1958 by-election following the early death of the sitting MP Wilfred Fienburgh, who was killed in a car crash at the age of 38. He was re-elected the following year at the 1959 general election, and at the next two general elections in the constituency.
In the British Government of the 1960s he was Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Army from 1964 to 1965, then for two years he was the Minister of Defence (Army). From 1967 to 1969 he held the office of Minister of Defence (Administration) at the Ministry of Defence.
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