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Reg Prentice (Reginald Ernest Prentice) was born on 16 July, 1923 in Croydon, is a British politician. Discover Reg Prentice's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 78 years old?

Popular As Reginald Ernest Prentice
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Age 78 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 16 July 1923
Birthday 16 July
Birthplace Croydon
Date of death 2001
Died Place Mildenhall, Wiltshire
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1923

Reginald Ernest Prentice, Baron Prentice, PC (16 July 1923 – 18 January 2001) was a British politician who held ministerial office in both Labour and Conservative Party governments.

He was the most senior Labour figure ever to defect to the Conservative Party.

Reg Prentice was born in Croydon, Surrey, and educated at Whitgift School in South Croydon, then at the London School of Economics.

He served in Austria and Italy during World War II.

1949

He was a councillor for Whitehorse Manor in the then-County Borough of Croydon from 1949, having stood unsuccessfully in Thornton Heath ward in 1947.

He served on the Housing, Libraries, Planning & Development, Water and Reconstruction Committees.

1950

Prentice joined the staff of the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) in 1950.

He first stood, unsuccessfully, for parliament in Croydon North in 1950 and 1951, then Streatham in 1955.

1957

As Labour Member of Parliament from 1957 for East Ham North, later Newham North East, he was a minister of state in Harold Wilson's first government at Education and Science (1964–66), then as Minister of Public Buildings and Works (1966–67), and finally was put in charge of the still-new Ministry of Overseas Development (1967–69).

1970

A biography, which provides an in-depth account of Prentice's party-political transition during the 1970s, was published in 2015: Geoff Horn, Crossing the floor: Reg Prentice and the crisis of British social democracy.

1971

In the 1971 Shadow Cabinet election, Prentice just missed out on being elected, finishing in 13th place in the ballot for 12 available places.

1972

However in April 1972 the resignations from the shadow cabinet of Harold Lever and George Thomson saw Prentice and 14th placed candidate John Silkin join the body in their place.

1973

At the next shadow cabinet election, Prentice topped the poll and he was again re-elected in 1973, this time finishing in third place.

1974

When Labour regained power, he was Secretary of State for Education and Science between 1974 and 1975, subsequently becoming Minister for Overseas Development with a seat in the cabinet until 1976.

1975

In 1975, after his Constituency Labour Party had been infiltrated by Trotskyist Militants, he was deselected.

He appealed unsuccessfully from the rostrum of the Labour Party Conference for the National Executive Committee to overturn their endorsement of his deselection.

1977

In 1977, Prentice left the Labour Party after a series of battles with left-wing constituency activists and joined the Conservative Party.

1979

He was elected as a Conservative Member of Parliament for Daventry in the 1979 general election.

Lady Hesketh was instrumental in him standing for Daventry.

He was a Minister of State at the Department of Health and Social Security in Margaret Thatcher's government between 1979 and 1981.

He left the government owing to ill health.

1987

He was knighted in 1987, the year he stepped down as an MP.

1992

On 30 January 1992, he was created Life Peer as Baron Prentice, of Daventry in the County of Northamptonshire.

In the last few years before his death at age 77, he was President of the Devizes Conservative Association.

Prentice died at his home in Mildenhall, Wiltshire.

His daughter, Christine, followed her father as a London Borough of Croydon councillor for Coulsdon East ward from 1992 to 1998.