Alfred Dubs
Alfred Dubs, Baron Dubs (born 5 December 1932) is a Czech-born British Labour Party politician and Mem-ber of the House of Lords.
Political Career[edit]
Before being granted his Life Peerage Lord Dubs was a member of the House of Commons. He was elected as MP for Battersea South in 1979 and later as MP for Battersea in 1983. From 1988 to 1995 he was Director of the Refugee Council. In 1994 was appointed a Labour Working peerage as Baron Dubs, of Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth. He was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Northern Ireland Office from May 1997 to December 1999. After losing his seat in the 1987 general election Lord Dubs stood for Battersea again at the 1992 election, only to see the Conservative majority increase against the national trend. Subsequently, he was given a life peerage.
Education[edit]
Born in Prague, then in Czechoslovakia, Dubs was one of 669 Czech, mainly Jewish, children saved by Eng-lish stockbroker Nicholas Winton from the Nazis on the ‘Kindertransport'. He was educated at Cheadle Hul-me School and the London School of Economics. He then worked as a local government officer before entering politics.
