Edward Bishop, Baron Bishopston

Edward Stanley Bishop, Baron Bishopston, PC (3 October 1920 – 19 April 1984) was a British Labour Party politician.[1] Bishop was Member of Parliament for Newark from 1964 to 1979, when he lost the seat to the Conservative Richard Alexander.Bishop was an assistant government whip from 1966 to 1967, Second Church Estates Commissioner from 18 April–30 November 1974,[2] and Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 1974 to 1979.After he lost his seat, he was created a life peer as Baron Bishopston, of Newark in the County of Nottinghamshire on 21 May 1981.This article about a Labour Party member of Parliament representing an English constituency is a stub.
The Right HonourableNewarkAlma materBritishLabour PartyBristolMerchant Venturers' Technical CollegeBristol UniversityBristol WestExeterSouth GloucestershireMember of ParliamentConservativeRichard AlexanderSecond Church Estates CommissionerPrivy Council of the United Kingdomlife peerNottinghamshireFrancesThe London GazetteHansardParliament of the United KingdomGeorge DeerEnglish