This morning's Daily Telegraph had an obituary for Francis Noel Baker, who was Labour MP for Brentford and Chiswick 1945-50 and for Swindon 1955-69.
By my calculation, his death and that of Ernest Millington earlier this year mean that there are only two MPs from the 1945 parliament now left alive: Michael Foot and John Freeman.
What makes me feel really old is that I remember Francis's father. Philip Noel-Baker was a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, a former Olympic athlete and himself a Labour MP. I remember him addressing a Labour Conference in the days when the BBC cleared its schedules to cover all the party conferences and the TUC congress too.
According to Wikipedia, his "mistress from 1936 to 1956 was Lady Megan Lloyd George". They didn't mention that at the Labour Conference.
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