Person
Richard Crossman
- Specialty
- Acting
- Birth
- December 15, 1907 · 66 years
- Death
- April 5, 1974
- Origin
- Buckhurst Hill, Essex, England, UK
Professional Trajectory
Richard Howard Stafford Crossman OBE was a British Labour Party politician. A university classics lecturer by profession, he was elected a Member of Parliament in 1945 and became a significant figure among the party's advocates of Zionism. He was a Bevanite on the left of the party, and a long-serving member of Labour's National Executive Committee (NEC) from 1952.
