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Clay Cross (UK Parliament Constituency)
Clay Cross was a county constituency centred on the village of Clay Cross in north-east Derbyshire. It returned one Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system. The constituency was created for the 1918 United Kingdom general election, 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1950 United Kingdom general election, 1950 general election. Boundaries The Urban District of Clay Cross, the Rural District of Blackwell, and part of the Rural District of Chesterfield. Members of Parliament Election results Elections in the 1910s Elections in the 1920s Elections in the 1930s Elections in the 1940s References Bibliography * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Clay Cross (Uk Parliament Constituency) Parliamentary constituencies in De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chesterfield (UK Parliament Constituency)
Chesterfield may refer to: Places Canada * Rural Municipality of Chesterfield No. 261, Saskatchewan * Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut United Kingdom *Chesterfield, Derbyshire, a market town in England ** Chesterfield (UK Parliament constituency) ** Borough of Chesterfield, a district of Derbyshire formed in 1974 ** Municipal Borough of Chesterfield, a district of Derbyshire until 1974 * Chesterfield, Staffordshire, a hamlet in England * Chesterfield House, Westminster, London United States * Chesterfield, Connecticut * Chesterfield, Idaho ** Chesterfield Historic District listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) * Chesterfield, Illinois * Chesterfield Township, Macoupin County, Illinois * Chesterfield, Indiana * Chesterfield, Massachusetts, and two districts listed on the NRHP: ** Chesterfield Center Historic District ** West Chesterfield Historic District * Chesterfield, Michigan * Chesterfield Township, Michigan * Chesterfield, Missouri * Chesterfield, New Ham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1933 Clay Cross By-election
The 1933 Clay Cross by-election was held on 1 September 1933. The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Labour MP, Charles Duncan. Unusually, the Constituency Labour Party asked for nominations for the vacancy, and published the list: Percy Barstow of the National Union of Railwaymen, former leader of the party Arthur Henderson Arthur Henderson (13 September 1863 – 20 October 1935) was a British iron moulder and Labour Party (UK), Labour politician. He was the first Labour Cabinet of the United Kingdom, cabinet minister, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1934 and, uniqu ..., Samuel Sales of the Derbyshire Miners' Association, and Ben Smith, former Member of Parliament for Rotherhithe. Henderson was chosen as the party's candidate, and Herbert Drinkwater acted as his election agent. Henderson easily won the election. This was Henderson's fifth by-election victory, having previously won in Burnley in 1924, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne East in 1923, in Wid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Lyons
Abraham Montagu Lyons (10 February 1894 – 29 November 1961) was an English lawyer, judge, politician and author, who served as a Conservative member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Leicester East, and as Recorder of Great Grimsby. Background Lyons was the only son of Rabinovitch Lyons of West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire. He attended Clee Grammar School for Boys in Lincolnshire. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the British Army on 23 October 1914, following the outbreak of World War I. Legal career Lyons was called to the Middle Temple on 28 June 1922, at which time he was a solicitor living in West Bridgford; became "leader" of the Midland circuit, and " took silk" in 1933. In 1936 he was appointed Recorder of Great Grimsby He was said to have been one of the few Jewish judges in 1930s England to take an active role in the Jewish community. Service in Parliament Lyons was elected in the 1931 general election, unseating Labour incumbent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1929 United Kingdom General Election
The 1929 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 30 May 1929, with Parliament dissolved on 10 May. It resulted in a hung parliament: despite receiving fewer votes than the Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald's Labour Party won the most seats in the House of Commons, with the Liberal Party, led again by former Prime Minister David Lloyd George, regaining some of the ground lost in 1924 and holding the balance of power. The election was often referred to as the " Flapper Election", because it was the first in which women aged 21–29 had the right to vote (owing to the Representation of the People Act 1928). Women over 30, with some property qualifications, had been able to vote since the 1918 general election, but the 1929 vote was the first general election with universal suffrage for adults over 21, which was then the age of majority. The election was fought against a background of rising unemployment, with the memo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1924 United Kingdom General Election
The 1924 United Kingdom general election was held on Wednesday 29 October 1924, as a result of the defeat of the Labour minority government, led by Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, in the House of Commons on a motion of no confidence. It was the third general election to be held in less than two years. Parliament was dissolved on 9 October. The Conservatives, led by Stanley Baldwin, performed better, in electoral terms, than in the 1923 general election and obtained a large parliamentary majority of 209. Labour, led by MacDonald, lost 40 seats. The election also saw the Liberal Party, led by H. H. Asquith, lose 118 of their 158 seats which helped to polarise British politics between the Labour Party and the Conservative Party. The Conservative landslide victory and the Labour defeat in this general election have been, in part, attributed to the Zinoviev letter, a forged document that was published as if it were genuine and sensationalised in the '' Daily Mail'' four days ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1923 United Kingdom General Election
The 1923 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 6 December 1923. The Conservative Party (UK), Conservatives, led by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, won the most seats, but Labour Party (UK), Labour, led by Ramsay MacDonald, and H. H. Asquith's reunited Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party gained enough seats to produce a hung parliament. It is the most recent UK general election in which a third party won over 100 seats (158 for the Liberals) and the most narrow gap (100 seats) between the first and third parties since. The Liberals' percentage of the vote, 29.7%, trailed Labour's by only one percentage point and has not been exceeded by a third party at any general election since. MacDonald formed the First MacDonald ministry, first Labour government with tacit support from the Liberals. Rather than trying to bring the Liberals back into government, Asquith's motivation for permitting Labour to enter power was that he hoped they would prove to be incompetent and quick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Masterman
Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman Privy Council of the United Kingdom, PC Member of parliament, MP (24 October 1873 – 17 November 1927) was a British radical Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party politician, intellectual and man of letters. He worked closely with such Liberal leaders as David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill in designing social welfare projects, including the National Insurance Act 1911. During the First World War, he played a central role in the main government propaganda agency. Early life Masterman was the third son of Thomas William Masterman of Rotherfield Hall in Sussex. His older brothers were the future natural historian Arthur Masterman and the future bishop Howard Masterman. On his mother’s side, Masterman was a grandson of William Brodie Gurney and a distant relative of Elizabeth Fry. He was educated at Weymouth College (public school), Weymouth College and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he was President of the Cambridge Union, President ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Hall (trade Unionist)
Frank Hall (1860 – 2 December 1927) was an English trade unionist. Hall began working at a coal mine at the age of ten, becoming a checkweighman sixteen years later. He became active in the Derbyshire Miners' Association, and was elected as its treasurer in 1907, then when W. E. Harvey died in 1914, he was elected as the new general secretary. He also served on the executive of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain from 1914.''Report of Proceedings at the Annual Trades Union Congress'', Vol.60 , p.294 Hall was shortlisted as the Derbyshire Miners' candidate for the 1914 North East Derbyshire by-election. He was selected by the union's executive, partly on the grounds that he was willing to run as a Labour Party candidate. However, a vote of all the union's members overturned the executive's decision, and the union's president James Martin was instead selected to stand."Grimsby Election." Times ondon, England5 May 1914: 9. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 2 Mar. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Neal
Harold Neal (3 July 1897 – 24 August 1972) was a British Labour Party politician. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Clay Cross from a 1944 by-election to 1950, and after boundary changes, for Bolsover from 1950 until his retirement in 1970. He became an MP after the death of former MP George Ridley. Following his retirement, his successor, Dennis Skinner, went on to become the longest-serving MP in the Labour Party's history. Neal was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Fuel and Power, Philip Noel-Baker Philip John Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, (1 November 1889 – 8 October 1982), born Philip John Baker, was a British politician, diplomat, academic, athlete, and renowned campaigner for disarmament. He carried the British team flag and won a s ..., in 1951. References * External links * 1897 births 1972 deaths Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for constituencies in Derbyshire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1944 Clay Cross By-election
The 1944 Clay Cross by-election was held on 14 April 1944. The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Labour MP, George Ridley. It was won by the Labour candidate Harold Neal. D. Craven Griffiths, a Liberal who worked for the civil service wanted to stand in the by-election. The President of the Board of Trade The president of the Board of Trade is head of the Board of Trade. A committee of the His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, it was first established as a temporary committee of inquiry in the 17th centur ... refused him permission for a leave of absence to fight a campaign.Nottingham Evening Post 18 Jan 1944 References Clay Cross by-election Clay Cross by-election Clay Cross by-election, 1944 By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Derbyshire constituencies Clay Cross by-election {{England-UK-Parl-by-election-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Ridley (Labour Politician)
George Ridley (29 November 1886 – 4 January 1944) was a Labour Party politician in England. He was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Clay Cross Clay Cross is a town and a civil parishes in England, civil parish in the North East Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England. It is a former industrial and mining town, about south of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Chesterfield. It is directly ... at a by-election in September 1936, filling the vacancy caused by the death of Alfred Holland at the age of 36. Like his predecessor, Ridley did not live until the next general election but died in January 1944 at 57. At the time of his death he was the Chairman of the National Executive of the Labour Party. He was survived by his wife, Ethel, and his children, Philip and Betty. References External links * 1886 births 1944 deaths Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1935–1945 Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1936 Clay Cross By-election
The 1936 Clay Cross Clay Cross is a town and a civil parishes in England, civil parish in the North East Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England. It is a former industrial and mining town, about south of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Chesterfield. It is directly ... by-election was held on 5 November 1936. The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Labour MP, Alfred Holland. It was retained by the Labour candidate George Ridley. References Clay Cross by-election Clay Cross by-election 1930s in Derbyshire Clay Cross by-election By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Derbyshire constituencies {{England-UK-Parl-by-election-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
