Sir Frederick Messer CBE (12 May 1886 – 8 May 1971) was an English trade unionist, Labour Party politician and animal welfare activist.

[1] He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1948 "for political and public services" and knighted in the 1953 Coronation Honours List.

A Bevanite, in 1958 he became the first president of Victory for Socialism, a left-wing ginger group within the Labour Party.

[8] The Bill made it an offence to perform certain operations on cattle, cats, dogs and horses without the use of anaesthetics.

The film was made by the National Abolition of Deer Hunting Committee and was shown to MP's in the House of Commons.