Niall MacDermot

Niall MacDermot (10 September 1916 – 22 February 1996) was a British Labour Party politician.

Niall MacDermot (acceptance speech Erasmus Prize 1989 on behalf of the International Commission of Jurists)

MacDermot was educated at Rugby School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and served in the Intelligence Corps during the Second World War.[1] He was first elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament (MP) for Lewisham North, at a by-election in 1957 following the death of Conservative MP Sir Austin Hudson.

MacDermot lost his seat two years later at the 1959 general election, and unsuccessfully contested the equivalent seat at the 1961 London County Council election. He returned to Parliament as MP for Derby North at a by-election in 1962.

He was Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 1964 to 1967, and retired from the Commons at the 1970 general election.

From 1970 to 1990, he was Secretary-General of the International Commission of Jurists, succeeding Sean MacBride.[2]

He was the grandson of Hugh Hyacinth O'Rorke MacDermot, who served as Solicitor General for Ireland in 1885 and 1886, and as Attorney General for Ireland in 1892.

Notes
  1. "MacDERMOT, Niall". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com. 2018 (online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription or UK public library membership required) (subscription required)
  2. Tam Dalyell (27 February 1996). "OBITUARY: Niall MacDermot". The Independent.

References
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Sir Austin Hudson		 Member of Parliament for Lewisham North
1957–1959		 Succeeded by
Christopher Chataway
Preceded by
Clifford Wilcock		 Member of Parliament for Derby North
1962–1970		 Succeeded by
Phillip Whitehead
Political offices
Preceded by
Alan Green		 Financial Secretary to the Treasury
1964–1967		 Succeeded by
Harold Lever



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