Member of Parliament for Manchester Wythenshawe
Alf Morris took which position from Mar 1966 to May 1970?
Alf Morris Alfred Morris , Baron Morris of Manchester , ( 23 March 1928 – 12 August 2012 ) was a British Labour Co-operative politician and disability campaigner . Political career . Morris served as Member of Parliament for Manchester Wythenshawe from 1964 until 1997 , having previously unsuccessfully fought the , then , safe Conservative seat of Liverpool Garston in 1951 and the Wythenshawe seat in 1959 . He served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Fred Peart , the Agriculture Minister . Morris campaigned against British entry to the Common Market and in May 1967 Prime Minister Harold Wilson sacked him , and six others , for abstaining in a Commons vote on the issue . Fred Peart did not appoint a replacement and Morris continued to work for him , albeit unofficially . In 1968 , Peart became Leader of the Commons and reappointed Morris as his Parliamentary Private Secretary . In 1970 Morris successfully introduced the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act , which was the first in the world to recognise and give rights to people with disabilities . In 1974 he became the first Minister for the Disabled anywhere in the world . In 1991 he introduced a Civil Rights ( Disabled Persons ) Bill and he led campaigns on Gulf War Syndrome . He was created a life peer as Lord Morris of Manchester , of Manchester in the County of Greater Manchester , in 1997 . He was a life member of the GMB Union , the general trade union of the United Kingdom . He served as President of the 1995 Co-operative Congress . Background . Morris ( one of the eight children of George Henry Morris and his wife Jessie Murphy ) was raised in poor circumstances in Ancoats , Manchester . In 1935 , the family left Ancoats and moved to a new housing estate in Newton Heath . He was educated at Brookdale Park School Newton Heath along with Harold Evans , who , as editor of The Sunday Times , wrote a leader saying that : As time ticked away to the 1970 general election , Alf Morriss Bill was the only piece of legislation worth saving . He received evening school tuition . He worked from the age of 14 as a clerk in the local Wilsons Brewery . Morris , whose father lost an eye and a leg and was gassed while serving in the First World War , and then suffered a long decline in health and eventual death arising from his injuries , became a campaigner on behalf of those with disabilities . After his fathers death , Morriss mother was not entitled to a war widows pension . Forty years later , Morris himself put the matter right by changing the law affecting armed forces pensions when he became the UK and the Worlds first Minister for the Disabled . Morris did his national service in the army , mainly in the Middle East , from 1946–48 . He then studied at Ruskin College , Oxford ( 1949–1950 ) , St Catherines College , Oxford ( BA modern history 1953 ) and the Department of Education , Manchester University . Morris worked as a Manchester schoolteacher and university extension lecturer in social history ( 1954–1956 ) and as an Industrial relations officer to the Electrical Supply Industry ( 1956–1964 ) . Family . He married Irene Jones in 1950 . They had two sons and two daughters . His brother Charles Morris and his niece Estelle Morris have also served as Labour MPs . Lord Morris died in hospital on Sunday 12 August 2012 after a short illness , aged 84 . He was survived by his wife and children . Awards and honours . - 1971 Field Marshel Lord Harding Award for distinguished service to the disabled - 1972 Louis Braille Memorial Award for outstanding service to the blind - 1979 Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom - 1989 Companion of the Queens Service Order for public services , 1989 New Year Honours , New Zealand - 1991 Honorary Officer of the Order of Australia - 1997 University of Salford honorary doctorate - 1997 Life Peer - 1998 University of Manchester honorary doctorate - 2000 Named , with Chrissie Maher and Tim Berners-Lee , Information Pioneers of the Century by the UKs National Information Forum . - 2005 MENCAP Lifetime achievement award - 2009 Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow and of the Royal College of Physicians Publications . - The Growth of Parliamentary Scrutiny by Committee ( Oxford , Pergamon P. , 1970 ) . - Needs before Means : an exposition of the underlying purposes of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act , 1970 ( Manchester , Co-operative Union , 1971 ) . - No Feet to Drag : report on the disabled ( London , Sidgwick and Jackson , 1972 ) . - Alf Morris : Peoples Parliamentarian – Scenes from the Life of Lord Morris of Manchester ( London , National Information Forum , 2007 ) . Archives . - Catalogue of the papers of Alfred Morris at London School of Economics Archives