Robert Hughes, Baron Hughes of Woodside

Aberdeen, Scotland, 1932 - 2022

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Born 3 January 1932
Chair of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement

Robert Hughes, known as Bob, was a British Labour politician, who was Chair of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement from 1976 until it was dissolved in 1994 after the ending of apartheid in South Africa. Bob was educated at Robert Gordon’s College, Aberdeen. In 1947, aged 15 his family emigrated to South Africa. Living there he witnessed the realities of apartheid, and on returning to the UK in 1954 began a life-long campaign against racism and discrimination. He became the first Chair of Action for South Africa, a body set up to support development in the country.

Providing unwavering leadership in the cause of African liberation, Bob helped build the Anti-Apartheid Movement into an organisation that came to be regarded as the conscience of the British people. He was the Member of Parliament for Aberdeen North from 1970 to 1997 and created a Life peer as Baron Hughes of Woodside in 1997.
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