William Hamling

William Hamling was a British Labour Party politician.
Hamling was educated at Liverpool University and was a signals officer in the Royal Marines during World War II.
Hamling contested Southport in 1945, Liverpool [Wavertree |Liverpool Wavertree] in 1950 and 1951, Woolwich West in 1955 and 1959, and Torquay at the Torquay by-election|1955 by-election], before he was finally elected as member of parliament for the Woolwich West constituency at the 1964 [United Kingdom general election|1964 general election], and held the seat until his death in 1975, aged 62. The resulting Woolwich West by-election was won by the Conservative candidate Peter Bottomley.
Probably the author of A Short History of the Liverpool Trades Council, Liverpool Trades Council and Labour Party, 1948.
A stained-glass window depicting William Blake, dedicated to the memory of Hamling, may be found in St. Mary's [Church, Battersea].