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| party = Labour | relations = | children = | residence = | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = | religion = Anglo-Catholic, then Roman Catholic | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} }} George Alfred Brown, Baron George-Brown, PC (2 September 1914 – 2 June 1985) was a British Labour politician who served as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1960 to 1970 and also in a number of Cabinet positions, most notably as Foreign Secretary during the Labour government of the 1960s. He was a leader of the Labour Party's trade union right wing, and an effective election campaigner. Ultimately, however, he was unable to cope with the pressures of high office without excessive drinking.〔Francis Wheen ("BOOK REVIEW / Statesman who bottled out: 'Tired and Emotional: The Life of Lord George Brown' - Peter Paterson" ), ''The Independent on Sunday'', 9 May 1993〕 He was always known simply as "George Brown" and, in order that this name continued to be used after he was granted a peerage in November 1970, he insisted on combining his first name and surname to create the title "Lord George-Brown" of Jevington in the County of Sussex.〔 == Early life == Brown was born in his maternal grandmother's flat, which was in a working class housing estate in Lambeth built by the Peabody Trust, a housing charity. His father had worked as a grocer's packer, lorry driver and served in World War I as a chauffeur to senior British Army officers. Brown attended Gray Street Elementary School in Blackfriars where he did well enough to pass an entrance examination to the West Square Central School, a junior grammar school and now part of a conservation area.〔"West Square" Central School - AOL Search results http://search.aol.co.uk/aol/search?s_it=topsearchbox.search&s_chn=hp_t1&v_t=aoluk-homePage51&q=%22West+Square%22+Central+School〕 Brown had already adopted his parents' left-wing views and later claimed to have delivered leaflets for the Labour Party in the 1922 general election when he was 8 years old. The school wanted Brown to stay on beyond the age of 15, but Brown decided to leave to earn his living and help his parents financially. He started work as a junior clerk in the ledger department of a City firm, but was made redundant after pressing his fellow clerks to join a trade union. From 1932, he worked as a fur salesman for the John Lewis Partnership, dropping his Cockney accent to appeal to society customers. Brown earned a great deal on commission. During this time, Brown continued his education through London County Council evening schools〔http://www.citylit.ac.uk/about/Our_history_and_awards/History〕 and the Workers' Educational Association. The poverty of his upbringing led Brown in later life to resent those who had a more privileged background and a university education.〔〔Oxford DNB http://www.oxforddnb.com/templates/article.jsp?articleid=30861&back=〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Brown, Baron George-Brown」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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