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Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker
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Person

Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker

1889 – 1982 · aged 93

British athlete, politician, Cabinet minister, life peer and Nobel Peace Prize winner (1889–1982)

Born
1 Nov 1889 · Hendon
Died
8 Oct 1982 · City of Westminster

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 107 years
  1. 1 Nov 1889BornBorn in Hendon
  2. 1929 – 1931RoleMember of the 35th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  3. 1936 – 1945RoleMember of the 37th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  4. 1945 – 1950RoleMember of the 38th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  5. 1947 – 1950RoleSecretary of State for Commonwealth Relations
  6. 1950 – 1951RoleMember of the 39th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  7. 1951 – 1955RoleMember of the 40th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  8. 1955 – 1959RoleMember of the 41st Parliament of the United Kingdom
  9. 1955RoleRepresentative of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
  10. 1959 – 1964RoleMember of the 42nd Parliament of the United Kingdom
  11. 1959AwardNobel Peace Prize
  12. 1964 – 1966RoleMember of the 43rd Parliament of the United Kingdom
  13. 1966 – 1970RoleMember of the 44th Parliament of the United Kingdom
  14. 1977 – 1982RoleMember of the House of Lords
  15. 8 Oct 1982DiedDied in City of Westminster

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1889 – 1982).

  1. 18961896 Summer Olympics
  2. 1898Spanish–American War
  3. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  4. 1914 – 1918World War I
  5. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  6. 1917Balfour Declaration
  7. 1917February Revolution
  8. 1917October Revolution
  9. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  10. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  11. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  12. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  13. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  14. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  15. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  16. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1938Munich Agreement
  18. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  19. 1939 – 1945World War II
  20. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  21. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  22. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  23. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  24. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  25. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  26. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  27. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  29. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  30. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  31. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  32. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  33. 1956Suez Crisis
  34. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  35. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  36. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  37. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  38. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  39. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  40. 1968Prague Spring

Biography

Philip John Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker (born Philip John Baker; 1 November 1889 – 8 October 1982) was a British politician, diplomat, academic, athlete, and renowned campaigner for disarmament. He carried the British team flag and won a silver medal for the 1500m run at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1959.

Noel-Baker is the only person to have won an Olympic medal and received a Nobel Prize. He was a Labour Member of Parliament (UK) for 36 years, serving from 1929 to 1931 and again from 1936 to 1970, serving in several ministerial offices and the cabinet. He was created a life peer in 1977.

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