Charles Pannell
Thomas Charles Pannell, Baron Pannell, PC was a British Labour Party politician.
He entered local politics in the outer London suburbs: he was a member of Walthamstow Borough Council from 1929–36 and of Erith Borough Council from 1938–55, and served as Mayor of Erith in 1945–46. He also sat on Kent County Council, where he was deputy leader of the Labour group from 1946–49.
He was elected Member of Parliament for Leeds West at a 1949 by-election, and served until his retirement at the February 1974 general election.
Pannell served as Minister of Public Building and Works in the first Wilson government, 1964–66.
On 21 June 1974 he was created a life peer, taking the title Baron Pannell, of the City of Leeds.
