biography
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Brockway, (Archibald) Fenner, Baron
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| lived:
| (1888–1988)
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| biography:
| British politician and pacifist, a founder of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, born in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) into a missionary family. He went into journalism, joined the Independent Labour Party, became a militant pacifist, and was imprisoned during World War 1. Elected to parliament for the first time in 1929–31, and again in 1950–64, he was made a life peer in 1964. |
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