Cyril Hamnett, Baron Hamnett

Cyril Hamnett, Baron Hamnett (20 May 1906 – 17 March 1980)^[1] was a British journalist and politician.

He was the son of James Henry Hamnett and was educated at Manchester Technical School.^[2] In 1950 and in the following year, he contested Knutsford unsuccessfully for Labour.^[3]

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.^[4]