Ernest Popplewell

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific-prefix = The Right Honourable

| name = The Lord Popplewell

| honorific-suffix = CBE

| image = Ernest_Popplewell.jpg

| caption = Popplewell in 1947

| term_start = 10 June 1955

| term_end = 23 October 1959

| predecessor = Herbert Bowden

| successor = John Taylor

| term_start1 = 6 June 1966

| term_end1 = 11 August 1977
Life Peerage

| term_start2 = 5 July 1945

| term_end2 = 10 March 1966

| predecessor2 = William Nunn

| successor2 = Robert Brown

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1899|12|10|df=yes}}

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| death_date = {{Death date and age|1977|08|11|1899|12|10|df=yes}}

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| nationality = British

| party = Labour

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Ernest Popplewell, Baron Popplewell, CBE (10 December 1899 – 11 August 1977) was a British Labour Party politician.

Political career

In the Labour landslide at the 1945 general election, Popplewell was elected as Member of Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne West. In 1951 he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).{{London Gazette |issue=39396 |date=30 November 1951 |page=6236 |supp=y}}

After his retirement from the House of Commons at the 1966 general election, he was made a life peer as Baron Popplewell, of Sherburn-in-Elmet in the West Riding of the County of York on 6 June 1966.{{London Gazette |issue=44014 |date=7 June 1966 |page=6598}}