Honours and Legacy
In 1949 he was created an OBE, advanced to a CBE in 1965. In 1974 he was made an honorary freeman of the London Borough of Lambeth. In January 1978 he announced he would not run for parliament again. He collapsed at his home in Holborn, London on 20 February 1978 and died two days later in Westminster Hospital.
A youth centre in Lambeth is named after him. He gave a tour of Parliament to a 13-year-old constituent in the 1950s, John Major, sparking a political ambition that led Major to becoming Conservative Prime Minister.
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Nigel Colman |
Member of Parliament for Brixton 1945–Feb 1974 |
Constituency abolished |
| New constituency | Member of Parliament for Lambeth Central Feb 1974–1978 |
Succeeded by John Tilley |
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“Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)