Bob Mellish

The Right Honourable The Lord Mellish PC
Mellish in 1964
Government Chief Whip in the House of Commons Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury
In office 4 March 1974 – 8 April 1976
Prime Minister	Harold Wilson
Preceded by	Humphrey Atkins
Succeeded by	Michael Cocks
In office 30 April 1969 – 19 June 1970
Prime Minister	Harold Wilson
Preceded by	John Silkin
Succeeded by	Francis Pym
Opposition Chief Whip in the House of Commons
In office 19 June 1970 – 4 March 1974
Leader	Harold Wilson
Preceded by	William Whitelaw
Succeeded by	Humphrey Atkins
Minister for Public Buildings and Works
In office 29 August 1967 – 30 April 1969
Prime Minister	Harold Wilson
Preceded by	Reg Prentice
Succeeded by	John Silkin
Member of Parliament for Bermondsey (Rotherhithe 1946–1950)
In office 19 November 1946 – 1 November 1982
Preceded by	Ben Smith
Succeeded by	Simon Hughes
Personal details
Born	(1913-03-03)3 March 1913 Deptford, London, England
Died	9 May 1998(1998-05-09) (aged 85) Sompting, West Sussex, England
Political party	Liberal Democrats (after 1988)
Other political affiliations	Labour (until 1982) Independent (1982–1986) SDP (1986–1988)
Spouse	Anne Warner ​ (m. 1938)​
Children	5

Robert Joseph Mellish, Baron Mellish, PC (3 March 1913 – 9 May 1998) was a British politician. He was a long-serving Labour Party MP of 36 years, from 1946 to 1982. He served as the Labour Chief Whip from 1969 until 1976, but in his later years he fell out with his local Constituency Labour Party which he felt had become dominated by people on the left of the Labour Party, and he eventually left the party. He became a life peer in 1985.