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Sir John Stafford Cripps, CBE (10 May 1912 – 9 August 1993) was a British journalist and campaigner. He was chairman of the Countryside Commission from 1970 to 1977. [1]
John Cripps was a self-effacing Quaker who made three distinguished careers in fields where shy violets rarely flourish - journalism, local government and the amenity business, at the rough...
John Cripps may refer to: John Marten Cripps, English traveller and antiquarian. John Cripps (journalist), British journalist.
- Early Life
- Joining The Labour Party
- Second World War
- After The War
- Personal Life
- Death
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Cripps was born in Chelsea, London, the son of Charles Cripps, a barrister and later Conservative MP, and the former Theresa Potter, the sister of Beatrice Webb and Catherine Courtney. Cripps grew up in a wealthy family and was educated at Winchester College, where the Headmaster described him as "a thoroughly good fellow" and at University College...
At the end of the 1920s, Cripps moved to the left in his political views, and in 1930 he joined the Labour Party. The next year, he was appointed Solicitor-General in the second Labour government, and received the then customary knighthood. In 1931, Cripps was elected to Parliament in a by-election for Bristol East. As an MP, he was a strong propon...
When Winston Churchill formed his wartime coalition government in 1940 he appointed Cripps Ambassador to the Soviet Union in the view that Cripps, who had Marxist sympathies, could negotiate with Joseph Stalin who had a nonaggression pact with Nazi Germany through the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. When Hitler attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941, Crip...
When Labour won the 1945 general election, Clement Attlee appointed Cripps President of the Board of Trade, the second most important economic post in the government. Although still a strong socialist, Cripps had modified his views sufficiently to be able to work with mainstream Labour ministers. In Britain's desperate post-war economic circumstanc...
Cripps was the sororal nephew of Beatrice Webb and Catherine Courtney. His mother died when he was four years old. His stepmother, Marian Ellis, had a profound influence on him. He was married to Isobel Swithinbank, who became the Honourable Lady Cripps, daughter of Harold William Swithinbank, better known as Dame Isobel Cripps (1891–1979), and had...
Cripps died aged 62 of cancer on 21 April 1952 while in Zürich, Switzerland. He was cremated at Sihlfeld Crematorium in Zürich. His ashes are buried in the churchyard in Sapperton, Gloucestershire, and his wife is buried beside him.
Addison, Paul. The Road To 1945: British Politics and the Second World War(1977) pp 190–210.Burgess, Simon. Stafford Cripps: a political life(1999)Clarke, Peter (2002). The Cripps Version: The Life of Sir Stafford Cripps. Allen Lane. ISBN 0-713-99390-1."Archival material relating to Stafford Cripps". UK National Archives.Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Stafford CrippsPortraits of Sir Stafford Cripps at the National Portrait Gallery, LondonJohn Cripps was a journalist and campaigner born 10 May 1912. He was a self-effacing Quaker who made three distinguished careers in fields where shy violets rarely flourish - journalism, local government and the amenity business.
11 de mai. de 2022 · Did you know the Pink Lady apple was created right here in WA? It was John Cripps who created and then named the Pink Lady in 1984, and it fast became Internationally known and loved. Sadly, John Cripps passed away this week aged 95. John's daughter Helen remembers having to taste test the Pink Lady in its early stage.
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