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Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Edward Frank Wise (3 July 1885 – 5 November 1933), commonly known as E.F.Wise or Frank Wise was an economist, Civil Servant at the National Insurance Commission, War Office and Ministry of Food and Board of Trade. He was instrumental in introducing state control for the requisitioning of raw materials at the War Office and of prices and the meat trade at the Ministry of Food. Following the Paris Peace Conference, 1919, he was a Delegate to the Supreme Economic Council and led the negotiations for the Anglo-Soviet Trade Agreement 1920–21. He was an adviser to David Lloyd George at the Genoa Conference (1922). He controversially resigned from the UK Civil Service to become the Director of the Soviet Union's Trade Office Centrosoyuz in 1923. He was elected as an Independent Labour Party Member of Parliament for Leicester East on 30 May 1929 and lost his seat on 27 October 1931 at the subsequent general election United Kingdom general election of 1931. He was a prominent member of the ILP but resigned when it disaffiliated from the Labour Party in 1932, becoming the first chairman of the Socialist League (UK). He had a close relationship with Jennie Lee, Baroness Lee of Ashridge, which ended with his sudden death at Wallington Hall the home of Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan in 1933."@en }

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