AN author from Colwall has written a biography of Britain's longest-serving Home Secretary.
Stephen Hart's new book tells the story of James Chuter Ede, who was home secretary between 1945 and 1951, longer than anyone else.
The book, entitled James Chuter Ede: Humane Reformer and Politician, has been published by Pen and Sword and is the first biography to be written about the former MP.
Chuter Ede is the only member of Clement Attlee's 1945 cabinet not to have yet had a biography written on them, and Mr Hart said he wants to tell the relatively unknown story.
He said: "It has been a fascinating experience studying the life of Chuter Ede, who left several books of diaries and numerous boxes of papers when he died. Many of these have hardly been looked at previously, and never by anyone writing a complete life.’