Wilfred Paling was a British Labour Party politician.
15 Facts About Wilfred Paling
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Wilfred Paling was born at Marehay, near Ripley, Derbyshire, one of eight children of a coalminer.
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Wilfred Paling subsequently won a scholarship to study mining at University College Nottingham.
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Wilfred Paling moved to the West Riding of Yorkshire to work at Bullcroft Colliery near Doncaster.
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Wilfred Paling was after elected to the committee of the Yorkshire Miners' Association, and in 1917 became colliery checkweighman.
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Wilfred Paling entered local politics in 1919 when he was elected to the West Riding County Council and to Bentley with Arksey Urban District Council.
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At the 1922 general election Wilfred Paling was elected Member of Parliament for Doncaster, and was re-elected in 1923,1924 and 1929.
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Wilfred Paling was defeated at the 1931 general election, when the Labour Party lost many seats to candidates of the National Government.
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Wilfred Paling was re-elected at the general elections of 1935 and 1945.
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Wilfred Paling had the largest majority of any MP in the 1945 general election: 35,410.
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Wilfred Paling joined the wartime coalition government as a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, in 1940 and was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions from 1941 to 1945.
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Wilfred Paling was elected for the new seat of Dearne Valley, and was re-elected in 1955.
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Wilfred Paling retired from parliament at the 1959 general election.
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Wilfred Paling married Elizabeth Hunt of Huthwaite, and they had two children.
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Wilfred Paling died at his home in Scawthorpe, near Doncaster, in April 1971.