Cyril Hamnett, Baron Hamnett

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Cyril Hamnett, Baron Hamnett (20 May 1906 – 17 March 1980){{cite web | url = http://www.leighrayment.com/peers/peersH1.htm | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080608023546/http://www.leighrayment.com/peers/peersH1.htm | archive-date = June 8, 2008 | title = Leigh Rayment - Peerage | url-status = usurped | accessdate = 3 December 2009 }} was a British journalist and politician.

He was the son of James Henry Hamnett and was educated at Manchester Technical School.{{cite book | author = Charles Roger Dod | author-link = Charles Roger Dod | author2 = Robert Phipps Dod| name-list-style = amp | title = Dod's Parliamentary Companion | date = 1976 | publisher = Dod's Parliamentary Companion Ltd. | pages = 138 }} In 1950 and in the following year, he contested Knutsford unsuccessfully for Labour.{{cite book | author = Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom | title = Political Studies | volume = I | publisher = Clarendon Press | date = 1953 | pages = 125 }}

On 6 July 1970, for his services to the Cooperative movement, he was created a life peer with the title Baron Hamnett, of Warrington, in the County Palatine of Lancaster.{{ London Gazette | issue = 45144 |page=7484 | date = 7 July 1970 }}