Frank Ashcroft Judd, Baron Judd, (28 March 1935 – 17 April 2021) was a British Labour politician. He was a Senior Fellow of Saferworld NGO from 1994 to 2002, and from 2002 to 2015, a trustee. In 2007, he became a member of the Advisory Board at the Centre for Human Rights, and from 2014 to 2015, a member of the Commission on Diplomacy, at the London School of Economics. He was a member of the Unite and GMB trade unions. Early life Frank Ashcroft Judd was born in Sutton in March 1935, the son of the late Charles Judd, CBE and Helen Osborn Judd (née Ashcroft), a JP. He was educated at the City of London School and the London School of Economics. At the age of 15, he joined the Labour Party, influenced by his mother's activism in the party and his father's internationalism. From 1957 to 1959, Judd was on a Short Service Commission in the Royal Air Force's Education Branch. He became Secretary-General of the International Voluntary Service in 1960, and is credited with overseeing a significant period of expansion for the organisation. In 1966, Judd left his position at IVS to begin a career in politics. Political career Judd contested the safe Conservative seat of Sutton and Cheam in 1959 (where his mother Helen had been the Labour candidate in 1945) and the marginal Portsmouth West in 1964, losing to the Conservative incumbent by just 497 votes. He became a Member of Parliament in 1966, after gaining Portsmouth West for Labour, in a general election which saw his party win a large majority in the House of Commons. The following year, he was made Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Minister of Housing and Local Government, a role he held until 1970. He narrowly held his seat at that year's general election, by just 955 votes, although Labour lost power to the Conservatives nationally. Judd became PPS to the Leader of the Opposition, former prime minister Harold Wilson, holding this role from 1970 to 1972. He was a member of the British Parliamentary Delegation to the Council of Europe and the Western European Union from 1970 to 1973. In 1972, he joined Labour's Front Bench Defence Team, remaining there until 1974. At the February 1974 general election, Judd stood for the new seat of Portsmouth North, created from parts of his old seat, winning it