Overview
- The former Labour politician died on 2 January after a short illness, according to family friend Kevin Meagher.
- He first entered Parliament in 1963 and represented Sheffield Attercliffe from 1970 until his retirement in 1992.
- He served as parliamentary under-secretary for the Royal Navy in James Callaghan’s government and later was president of the NATO Assembly in the 1980s.
- A veteran of the Fleet Air Arm, he survived a World War II plane crash in the Orkney Islands and returned to flying after treatment.
- He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, later received a papal knighthood, and published a second book at age 103.