Roy Mason

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Barnsley (1953–1983)
  1. "Birthdays today". The Telegraph. 18 April 2012. Archived from the original on 20 April 2012. Retrieved 14 April 2014. Lord Mason of Barnsley, former Labour Government Minister, 88
  2. Yorkshire Post Obituary – 'Roy Mason a Man Forever Linked with Barnsley' Retrieved 20 April 2015
  3. 1 2 "Former Labour MP Lord Mason of Barnsley dies". BBC News. 20 April 2015. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
  4. Archived 28 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine
  5. Johnston, Wesley. "Deaths in each year of the 'Troubles' 1969 – 1998" . Retrieved 22 September 2013.
  6. Holland, Jack; McDonald, Henry (1994). INLA Deadly Divisions.
  7. 1 2 3 "Lord Fitt". Daily Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group. 27 August 2005. Retrieved 25 December 2012. His influence on the British government sharply diminished in 1976 with the advent that year of Mason as Secretary of State. "He's an anti-Irish wee git", Fitt told journalists; but perhaps Mason's worst sin was that he ignored the MP for West Belfast. Fitt took his revenge in the crucial vote on the Labour government's bill for Scottish devolution. He could not bring himself, he explained, to vote for a government with Mason as Ulster Secretary, against a background of alleged police brutality in the province. The government, defeated by one vote, resigned; the radical Gerry Fitt had helped to usher in the rule of Mrs Thatcher.
  8. Nigel Lawson -The View from No.11: Memoirs of a Tory Radical
  9. "No. 51099". The London Gazette . 23 October 1987. p. 13091.
  10. "Death of Lord Mason of Barnsley at 91". Yorkshire Post. 20 April 2015. Archived from the original on 12 September 2019. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
  11. List of Deceased members of the House of Lords
The Lord Mason of Barnsley
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Roy Mason 1978.jpg
Mason in 1978
Shadow Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
In office
14 July 1979 24 November 1981
In office
31 March 1953 18 May 1987
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Barnsley
19531983
Constituency abolished
New constituency Member of Parliament for Barnsley Central
19831987
Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by Postmaster General
1968
Succeeded by
Preceded by Minister of Power
1968–1969
Position abolished
Preceded by President of the Board of Trade
1969–1970
Succeeded by
Preceded by Secretary of State for Defence
1974–1976
Succeeded by
Preceded by Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
1976–1979
Succeeded by