The Lord Aylestone | |
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![]() Bowden in 1965 | |
Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs | |
In office 1 August 1966 – 29 August 1967 | |
Prime Minister | Harold Wilson |
Preceded by | Arthur Bottomley (Commonwealth Relations) |
Succeeded by | George Thomson |
Leader of the House of Commons Lord President of the Council | |
In office 16 October 1964 – 11 August 1966 | |
Prime Minister | Harold Wilson |
Preceded by | Selwyn Lloyd (Leader of Commons) Quintin Hogg (President of Council) |
Succeeded by | Richard Crossman |
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
In office 3 November 1967 – 30 April 1994 Life Peerage | |
Member of Parliament for Leicester South West Leicester South (1945–1950) | |
In office 5 July 1945 – 2 November 1967 | |
Preceded by | Charles Waterhouse |
Succeeded by | Tom Boardman |
Personal details | |
Born | 20 January 1905 Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom |
Died | 30 April 1994 Worthing, West Sussex, United Kingdom | (aged 89)
Political party | ILP (until 1936) Labour (1936–81) SDP (1981–88) 'Continuing' SDP (1988–90) Liberal Democrats (1992–94) |
Spouses | Louisa Brown
(m. 1928; died 1992)Vicki Clayton (m. 1993) |
Herbert William Bowden, Baron Aylestone (20 January 1905 – 30 April 1994) was a British Labour politician.