Dingle Foot

Sir Dingle Mackintosh Foot, Q.C., PC, (24 August 1905 – 18 June 1978) was a British lawyer and politician, born in Plymouth, Devon.

He was educated at Bembridge School, a famous boys' independent school on the Isle of Wight, and at Balliol College, Oxford, and was called to the bar in 1930. From 1931 to 1945 he was Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Dundee. He was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Economic Warfare in Winston Churchill's wartime coalition, and a member of the British delegation to San Francisco Conference in 1945. At the 1945 election he lost his seat to Labour.

Foot left the Liberal Party and joined the Labour Party in 1956. He was Labour MP for Ipswich 1957-1970. He became Solicitor General in the government of Harold Wilson and was knighted and made a Privy Counsellor in 1964. In 1970 he was again defeated, this time by the Conservative Party. His publications included Despotism in Disguise (1937) and British Political Crises (1976).

[edit] Family

Foot's father, Isaac Foot, was a solicitor and founder of the Plymouth law firm, Foot and Bowden. Isaac Foot was an active member of the Liberal Party and was Liberal Member of Parliament for Bodmin in Cornwall 1922–1924 and 1929–1935 and a Lord Mayor of Plymouth.

His brother, Michael Foot, was a prominent figure in the Labour Party and was Leader of the Opposition from 1981 to 1983. He was also a brother of the Liberal politician John Foot (Lord Foot), and of Hugh Foot (Lord Caradon), a Governor of Cyprus and British Ambassador to the United Nations, whose son was the campaigning journalist Paul Foot.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Michael Marcus Edwin Scrymgeour	Member of Parliament for Dundee 2-seat constituency (with Florence Horsbrugh) 1931–1945	Succeeded by Thomas Cook John St Loe Strachey
Preceded by Richard Stokes	Member of Parliament for Ipswich 1957–1970	Succeeded by Ernle Money
Legal offices
Preceded by Sir Peter Rawlinson	Solicitor General for England and Wales 1964–1967	Succeeded by Arthur Irvine