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Sir Richard Stafford Cripps CH QC FRS (24 April 1889 – 21 April 1952) was a British Labour Party politician, barrister, and diplomat. A wealthy lawyer by background, he first entered Parliament at a by-election in January 1931 , and was one of a handful of Labour frontbenchers to retain his seat at the October general election that year .
Apr 20, 2024 · Sir Stafford Cripps (born April 24, 1889, London, England—died April 21, 1952, Zürich, Switzerland) was a British statesman chiefly remembered for his rigid austerity program as chancellor of the exchequer (1947–50).
Apr 28, 2015 · How Winston Churchill dealt with Stafford Cripps provides insight into how he kept his own “team of rivals” working together in a war that Britain had to win. The first move was to partially fulfil Cripps’s ambitions by bringing him into the War Cabinet as Leader of the House of Commons.
Promising an early governmental statement of a new policy toward India, Cripps made the sensational assertion that England’s lost lands can only be regained, and the rest of the Empire saved, ‘on...
May 11, 2018 · Sir Stafford Cripps [1], 1889–1952, British statesman. A brilliant and successful patent and corporation lawyer, he joined the Labour party [2] in 1929 and became solicitor general in 1930, being knighted the same year.
Sir Richard Stafford Cripps. Date of birth: 24 Apr 1889. City of birth: London. Country of birth: England. Date of death: 21 Apr 1952. Location of death: Bircher Benner Clinic, Zurich, Switzerland. About: Stafford Cripps was born in 1889 in London to Charles Alfred Cripps and his wife Theresa.
Apr 24, 2021 · Sir Richard Stafford Cripps (1889–1952), politician and lawyer, was the youngest child of successful barrister, Conservative MP and Labour cabinet minister Charles Cripps. Stafford received a staunchly Christian but undogmatic education.
