1. Philip Noel-Baker carried the British team flag and won a silver medal for the 1500m at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1959.
20 Facts About Philip Noel-Baker
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Philip Noel-Baker was a Labour Member of Parliament for 36 years, serving from 1929 to 1931 and again from 1936 to 1970, serving in several ministerial offices and the cabinet.
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Philip Noel-Baker's father had moved to England in 1876 to establish a manufacturing business, and served as a Progressive member of the London County Council from 1895 to 1906, and as a Liberal member of the House of Commons for East Finsbury from 1905 to 1918.
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Philip Noel-Baker studied in the United States at the Quaker-associated Haverford College in Pennsylvania.
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Philip Noel-Baker was a competitor in the Olympic Games as a middle-distance runner, both before and after the First World War, representing Great Britain in the 800 metres and 1500 metres at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm.
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Philip Noel-Baker reached the final of the 1500 metres, won by his fellow countryman Arnold Jackson.
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Philip Noel-Baker won his first-round race in the 800 metres, but then concentrated on the 1500 metres, taking the silver medal behind his teammate Albert Hill.
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Philip Noel-Baker was captain again at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, but did not compete.
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Philip Noel-Baker became the first Sir Ernest Cassel Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics from 1924 to 1929, and a lecturer at Yale University from 1933 to 1934.
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Philip Noel-Baker was elected as the member for Coventry in 1929, and served as parliamentary private secretary to the Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson.
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Philip Noel-Baker lost his seat in 1931, but remained Henderson's assistant while Henderson was president of the World Disarmament Conference in Geneva in 1932 to 1933.
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Philip Noel-Baker stood for Parliament again in Coventry in 1935, unsuccessfully, but won the Derby by-election in July 1936 after the sitting Derby Member of Parliament J H Thomas resigned.
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Philip Noel-Baker became a member of the Labour Party's National Executive Committee in 1937.
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Philip Noel-Baker moved to become Secretary of State for Air in October 1946, and then became Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations in 1947 and joined the cabinet.
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Philip Noel-Baker was the minister responsible for organising the 1948 Olympic Games in London.
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Philip Noel-Baker moved to the Ministry of Fuel and Power in 1950.
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Philip Noel-Baker stood down as the MP for Derby South at the 1970 general election, at which he was succeeded by Walter Johnson.
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Philip Noel-Baker was president of the International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education from 1960 to 1976.
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Philip Noel-Baker was an active contributor to House of Lords debates into his nineties, speaking in debates on the ongoing Falklands War in the months preceding his death.
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Philip Noel-Baker died at home in Westminster on 8 October 1982.