Ernest Lamb, 1st Baron Rochester

He subsequently became a member of the Port of London Authority and chairman of the Chatham and District Water Board.

[5] He was a supporter of Ramsay MacDonald after the latter formed the National Government in August 1931 and his subsequent expulsion from the Labour Party, and became a member of the National Labour Organisation, founded the same year by supporters of MacDonald.

He continued to hold this post until 1935, and during the same period also represented the Ministry of Labour in the House of Lords.

He served for many years on the board of the National Children's Home and Orphanage, was secretary of the Wesleyan Temperance and Social Welfare Department and vice president of the British and Foreign Bible Society.

[1] He died at his home in Croydon, Surrey, in January 1955, aged 78, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son Foster Charles Lowry Lamb.