Charles George Percy Delacourt-Smith, Baron Delacourt-SmithPC, JP (25 April 1917 – 2 August 1972[1]), was a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician.
Following the outbreak of the Second World War, Delacourt-Smith entered the Royal Engineers in July 1940.[2] He was commissioned in January 1943 and was transferred to the Royal Army Service Corps, where he was promoted to captain and was mentioned in despatches.[3] After the end of the war Delacourt-Smith was admitted to the British House of Commons in 1945, having been elected for Colchester.[3] He represented the constituency until 1950 and during this time was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Philip Noel-Baker in the latter's capacity as Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations.[3] In 1947, he was chosen as an executive member of Labour's Research Department, a position he held for the next four years.[2]
In 1939, he married Margaret, the daughter of Frederick Hando.[5] They both had one son and two daughters.[5] Together with his wife and younger daughter, he assumed the additional surname Delacourt by a deed poll in 1967.[6] He died, aged 55, at the Westminster Hospital, London in 1972, after suffering a stroke while making a speech in the House of Lords, being survived by his wife.[5] Two years after his death she received a life peerage in her own right.[7]
Works
Democratic Sweden (1938), Smith, G. and Cole, M. (eds), Routledge
Britain's Food Supplies in Peace and War (1940), Smith, C., Routledge
Modern Turkey (1940), Parker, J. and Smith, C., Routledge
