Richard Crossman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Richard Crossman

British Member of Parliament

Date of Birth: 15-Dec-1907

Place of Birth: Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 05-Apr-1974

Profession: writer, politician, author, editor, diarist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Richard Howard Stafford Crossman (15 December 1907 – 5 April 1974), sometimes known as Dick Crossman, was a British Labour Party politician.
A university classics lecturer by profession, he was elected a Member of Parliament in 1945 and became a significant figure among the party's advocates of Zionism.
He was a Bevanite on the left of the party, and a long-serving member of Labour's National Executive Committee (NEC) from 1952.
He was a Cabinet minister in Harold Wilson's governments of 1964-1970, notably for Housing and later for Social Services. In the early 1970s Crossman was editor of the New Statesman.
He is remembered for his highly revealing three-volume Diaries of a Cabinet Minister, published posthumously.