Richard Crossman (66)

1907-12-15 - 1974-04-05 | Buckhurst Hill, Essex, England, UK

Richard Howard Stafford Crossman OBE 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.