Charles Dukes, 1st Baron Dukeston CBE (28 October 1881 – 14 May 1948)[1] was a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician.
[2] He subsequently had a number of casual jobs throughout north west England, including working on the Manchester Ship Canal.
[4] When the First Labour Government fell in 1924, Dukes lost his seat in the resulting 1924 general election, unseated by his predecessor Cunningham-Reid.
[4] However, at the 1929 general election, when Cunningham-Reid abandoned Warrington and stood unsuccessfully in Southampton,[5] Dukes was returned again to the House of Commons.
He was ennobled in 1947 as Baron Dukeston, of Warrington in the County Palatine of Lancaster,[6] and was an active Labour Party peer.