George Willey

O.G. Willey
MP CBE
O.G. Willey MP CBE
Member of Parliament; for Cleveland
	In office; 5 July 1945 – 12 July 1952
Preceded by	Robert Bower
Succeeded by	Arthur Palmer
Personal details
Born	Octavius George Willey; 12 January 1886
Died	12 July 1952 (aged 66); London
Nationality	British
Political party	Labour

(Octavius) George Willey CBE (12 January 1886 – 12 July 1952)^[2] was a Labour Party politician in England. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1945 until his death.

Early career

Willey was responsible for running Teesside's Air Raid Precautions service during the Second World War. ^[3] A trade unionist and campaigner, Willey first stood for Parliament at the 1923 general election in the Skipton constituency, but did not win a seat. He was unsuccessful again in Skipton at the 1924 election, and also in Birmingham West at the 1931 and 1935 general elections.^[4]

Willey finally won a seat in the Labour landslide at the 1945 general election when he was elected for Cleveland; a seat which had only once before elected a Labour MP (in 1929).^[4] Willey had been one of ten official candidates selected by the National Union of General and Municipal Workers (NUGMW), alongside Tom Williamson and others; all ten were elected.^[5]

He was re-elected in 1950 and 1951, and was awarded a CBE for political and public services.^[6] He died in office in 1952, aged 66.^[2]

^ "The Royal Gazette". Bermuda. 14 July 1952.
^ ^a ^b "House of Commons constituencies beginning with "c" (part 4)". Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages. Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 30 March 2009.
^ Vickers, Anthony (18 March 2006). "The Evening Gazette". Retrieved 18 November 2021.
^ ^a ^b Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
^ Callow, John (December 2021). GMB @ Work - 1889 - 2012 The Story Behind the Union. Mitchell Evand Books and GMB. p. 229. ISBN 978-1-901268-61-4.
^ CBE:"No. 39104". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 1950. pp. 1–34.