The death has occurred, at Glass. gow, at the age of 61, of the Hon. John Wheatley, P.C, who had been Labour member of Parliament for the Shettleston Division of Glasgow since 1922. He died ut corebral haemorrhage.
The son of Irish labourers, he was educated in the village schools in Lanarkshire and worked as a miner in his early years. He serv-two years on the County Coun:
of Lanarkshire and 10 years on the Glasgow Corporation.
Mr, Wheatley, who was Minister of Health in the Labour Government of 1924, wrote many pamphlets on Labour and Socialist questions. He was made a member of the Privy Council in 1924.—Reuter.
Until Mr, Wheatley entered it in November, 1922, the House of Commons had never heard of him. It was soon to hear what it regarded more than enough. At first sight it was rather attracted to him, £oF Jhis ruddy, round smiling features, this glittering spectacles, his slight-
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