VIP Visit - Rt Hon Sir Stafford Cripps MP

Photograph of a VIP visit to Dowty Equipment, Arle Court by Rt Hon Sir Stafford Cripps MP, Minister of Aircraft Production c.1942

Sir Richard Stafford Cripps, CH, QC, FRS was a British Labour politician of the first half of the twentieth century. A wealthy barrister by background, he entered Parliament at a by-election in 1931, and was one of a handful of Labour front-benchers to retain his seat in the general election that autumn.