Frederick John Wise, 1st Baron Wise (10 April 1887 – 20 November 1968), was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom . He was Member of Parliament (MP) for King's Lynn from 1945 to 1951. He was the younger brother of fellow Labour MP Frank Wise .
Wise came from the village of Souldern in north Oxfordshire , where he played in the local amateur football team.[ 2]
He married Kate Sturgeon on 25 November 1911. The couple had three daughters and a son.
At the 1931 general election he stood in the Harborough constituency in Leicestershire . Previously a Conservative -held marginal seat, Labour's vote fell only slightly in 1931, but the Liberals did not field a candidate and Earl Castle Stewart was re-elected with 74.5% of the votes.
For the 1935 general election Wise stood in Conservative-held Lowestoft , where he was defeated again.
He finally entered Parliament at the 1945 general election , when Labour's post-war landslide help him win a majority of 3,274 votes in Conservative-held King's Lynn . He was returned again at the 1950 general election with a majority of only 270 votes, but at the next general election, in October 1951 , he lost the seat by 937 votes to the Conservative Ronald Scott-Miller .
On 24 December 1951, he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Wise , of King's Lynn in the County of Norfolk .
References
^ "Wise, Baron (UK, 1951)" . Cracoft's Peerage . Heraldic Media. Retrieved 26 April 2017 .^ Hitchman, Robert A. (1984). A Third Journey from the Turnpike . Souldern: Robert A Hitchman. p. 31.
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