Jack Lawson

John James Lawson, 1st Baron Lawson, PC was a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician. A miner and later the Member of Parliament (MP) for Chester-le-Street in County Durham (1919–1949), he served in the governments of Ramsay MacDonald and Clement Attlee. In 1950 he was ennobled as Baron Lawson, of Beamish in the County of Durham, and is sometimes referred to as Lord Lawson of Beamish.