sentences:  Serving in junior posts during the Attlee government, he remained in Parliament until the age of 81.Key was born in Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, where his father worked in the brickfields.At the age of six, his father died and he was brought up by his mother alone; the family were very poor and not only did his mother have to work as a charlady, Key himself was needed to work on deliveries for a local draper.