14 Facts About Alf Morris

Alf Morris served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Fred Peart, the Agriculture Minister.

Alf Morris campaigned against British entry to the Common Market and in May 1967 Prime Minister Harold Wilson sacked him, and six others, for abstaining in a Commons vote on the issue.

In 1970 Alf Morris successfully introduced the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act, which was the first in the world to recognise and give rights to people with disabilities.

Alf Morris was created a life peer as Lord Morris of Manchester, of Manchester in the County of Greater Manchester, in 1997.

Alf Morris was a life member of the GMB Union, the general trade union of the United Kingdom.

Alf Morris served as President of the 1995 Co-operative Congress.

Alf Morris was president of the Haemophilia Society from 1999 to 2012.

Alf Morris was raised in poor circumstances in Ancoats, Manchester.

Alf Morris worked from the age of 14 as a clerk in the local Wilson's Brewery.

Forty years later, Alf Morris himself put the matter right by changing the law affecting armed forces pensions when he became the UK and the World's first Minister for the Disabled.

Alf Morris did his national service in the army, mainly in the Middle East, from 1946 to 1948.

Alf Morris then studied at Ruskin College, Oxford, St Catherine's College, Oxford and the Department of Education, Manchester University.

Alf Morris worked as a Manchester schoolteacher and university extension lecturer in social history and as an Industrial relations officer to the Electrical Supply Industry.

Lord Alf Morris died in hospital on Sunday 12 August 2012 after a short illness, aged 84.