John Hatch, Baron Hatch of Lusby

John Charles Hatch, Baron Hatch of Lusby (1 November 1917 – 11 October 1992) was a British author, broadcaster, lecturer and Labour Party politician.^[1]

Hatch was born in Stockport, Lancashire but moved to Yorkshire at an early age. He attended Keighley Boys' Grammar School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He subsequently became a tutor in Labour colleges and a lecturer at the University of Glasgow.^[2]

Between 1950 and 1970 he served as Commonwealth correspondent for the New Statesman,^[2] and developed a lifelong interest in African affairs, serving as a policy adviser to leaders such as Julius Nyerere and Kenneth Kaunda amongst others.^[2] He was Commonwealth Secretary of the Labour Party during the 1950s,^[2][3] before becoming Director of the Extra-Mural Department of the University of Sierra Leone in 1961.

He was made a life peer on 5 May 1978 as Baron Hatch of Lusby of Oldfield in the County of West Yorkshire.^[4]

Publications

• Coal for the people; the mines for the miners... (1946)
• The Dilemma of South Africa (1952)
• The intelligent socialist's guide to Africa (1953)
• New from Africa (1956)
• Everyman's Africa (1959)
• Africa today-and tomorrow (1965)
• A History of Post-war Africa (1965)
• The History of Britain in Africa (1966)
• Africa - the rebirth of self-rule (1967)
• Nigeria: A history (1971)
• Tanzania: A profile (1972)
• Africa emergent: Africa's problems since independence (1974)
• Two African statesmen: Kaunda of Zambia and Nyerere of Tanzania (1976)
• Kaunda of Zambia (1980)

References

1. ‘HATCH OF LUSBY’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014
2. Jenkins, Hugh (13 October 1992). "Obituary: Lord Hatch of Lusby". The Independent. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
3. "Hailsham rejects Suez attack". The Glasgow Herald. 15 January 1987. p. 6.
4. "No. 47529". The London Gazette (Supplement). 9 May 1978. p. 5481.