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Progressivism In The United Kingdom
Independent progressive is a description used both in the United Kingdom and elsewhere to denote a political progressivism, progressive who lacks a formal affiliation to a party. In the United Kingdom In the late 19th century/early 20th century, the Progressive Party (London), Progressive Party was formed as a party in that contested local government elections in London. Members included those who stood at parliamentary elections as either Liberal or Labour party candidates. At a national level, the relationship that existed between the Liberal and Labour parties from 1906 to 1918 was referred to as the Progressive Alliance. At the 1935 General Election, just one candidate stood as an independent progressive, and that was Gerald Bailey at Aldershot (UK Parliament constituency), Aldershot. Bailey, a Quaker, had stood as a Liberal in 1929 and since 1930 had run the National Peace Council. Popular Front In the late 1930s, many, including prominent Labour politician Sir Stafford Cri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of European mainland, the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The UK includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and most of List of islands of the United Kingdom, the smaller islands within the British Isles, covering . Northern Ireland shares Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border, a land border with the Republic of Ireland; otherwise, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea. It maintains sovereignty over the British Overseas Territories, which are located across various oceans and seas globally. The UK had an estimated population of over 68.2 million people in 2023. The capital and largest city of both England and the UK is London. The cities o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1939 Westminster Abbey By-election
The 1939 Westminster Abbey by-election was a by-election, parliamentary by-election held on 17 May 1939 for the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, British House of Commons United Kingdom constituencies, constituency of Westminster Abbey (UK Parliament constituency), Westminster Abbey in London. Previous MP The seat had become vacant when the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) Sir Sidney Herbert, 1st Baronet, Sir Sidney Herbert had died on 22 March 1939. Herbert had held the seat since an unopposed 1932 Westminster Abbey by-election, 1932 by-election. Previous Result Candidates The Conservative candidate was Harold Webbe. The Labour Party (UK), Labour candidate in 1935, William Kennedy, had been reselected to contest the next General Election; however, the Labour party decided not to contest the by-election. The Communist party, who had not contested the seat before, chose Dr Billy Carritt. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1942 Salisbury By-election
The 1942 Salisbury by-election was a by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Salisbury in Wiltshire on 8 July 1942. It was won by the Conservative Party candidate John Morrison, later Baron Margadale. Vacancy The seat had become vacant on the death of the 55-year-old sitting Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) James Despencer-Robertson. He had won the seat at a by-election in 1931, having previously been MP for Islington West from 1922 to 1923. Candidates The Conservative candidate was 36-year-old John Morrison. During World War II, most by-elections were unopposed, since the major parties had agreed not to contest by-elections when vacancies arose in seats held by the other parties; contests occurred only when independent candidates or minor parties chose to stand, and the Common Wealth Party was formed with the specific aim of contesting war-time by-elections. In Salisbury, there were two independent candidates: William Reginald Hipwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1941 Scarborough And Whitby By-election
The 1941 Scarborough and Whitby by-election was held on 24 September 1941. The by-election was caused by the resignation of the incumbent Conservative MP, Paul Latham, who had been charged with indecency. The Conservative candidate was Alexander Spearman, who had formerly contested Mansfield and Gorton unsuccessfully. In keeping with wartime practice, the by-election was not contested by the other parties in the coalition government, but Spearman was opposed by W. R. Hipwell, the editor of the tabloid newspaper Reveille, running as an 'independent Democrat'. Spearman won with 12,518 votes; Hipwell received 8,086. Thirty-six per cent of the electorate cast their votes. Hipwell's campaign focused on complaints about the conditions of Services personnel. He ran again as an Independent Progressive in by-elections in Hampstead, Salisbury and The Hartlepools The Hartlepools was a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1941 Hampstead By-election
The 1941 Hampstead by-election was a by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Hampstead in London on 27 November 1941. The seat had become vacant on the death of the constituency's Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), George Balfour. Candidates In accordance with the war-time electoral pact, neither the Labour nor the Liberal parties fielded a candidate. The Conservative candidate was Charles Challen. Challen was opposed by three independents who were not affected by the pact. Noel Pemberton Billing had been MP for Hertford from 1916 to 1921. He stood as a National Independent, although he was not supported by the Government. Billing had won a by-election during the First World War as a right-wing independent and was seeking to replicate his success. He stood on a policy of aerial reprisals against Nazi Germany. William Reginald Hipwell, editor of ''Reveille'', a " barrack room newspaper for the fighting forces", stood as an Independent Prog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reg Hipwell
William Reginald Hipwell or Reg Hipwell (died 1966) was a populist forces journalist and parliamentary candidate. Background Hipwell was born in Olney, Buckinghamshire. He attended Rugby School. He was President of the Horse-Brass Society. Career Hipwell was the founder and editor of Reveille, a " barrack room newspaper for the fighting forces", and stood as an Independent Progressive in four Parliamentary by-elections during the Second World War when the major parties honoured a war time electoral truce. His campaigns focused on complaints about the conditions of services personnel. He campaigned for an increase in pay for servicemen and their dependents. He said that he admired "many of the planks in the Conservative platform, yet he felt he also stood for the best that the Labour and Liberal parties had to offer".By-Elections in British Politics, Cook & Ramsden He was also the agent for the successful independent candidate, William Brown in the 1942 Rugby by-election The 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1940 Cambridge University By-election
The 1940 Cambridge University by-election was a parliamentary by-election for the British House of Commons constituency of Cambridge University (UK Parliament constituency), Cambridge University on 23 February 1940. Cambridge University was a two-member constituency. Vacancy The by-election was caused by the death of the sitting Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), MP, John James Withers, Sir John James Withers on 29 December 1939 at the age of 76. He had been one of the MPs here since holding the seat in the 1926 Cambridge University by-election. Election history In the 1935 general election it elected two Conservative MPs. Cambridge University had been won by Conservatives at every election since 1922 when an Independent Liberal won one of the seats. The result at the last General election was as follows; Candidates Due to the wartime electoral truce, the party who were defending the seat were assured of not facing an official c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ryle (professor)
John Alfred Ryle (1889–1950) was a British physician and epidemiologist. He was born the son of Brighton medical doctor R J Ryle and brother of the Oxford philosopher Gilbert Ryle. He was educated at Brighton College and Guy's Hospital where he qualified in 1913. He served in the military during World War I and afterwards qualified MD at the University of London. After teaching at Guy's Hospital he was appointed in 1935 Regius Professor of Physic (not Physics; "Physic" here is an archaic term for Medicine) at the University of Cambridge. In 1943 he was appointed chair of the newly created Institute of Social Medicine at the University of Oxford, initiating the academic discipline of Social Medicine (Epidemiology). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1924 and delivered their Goulstonian Lecture in 1925 and their Croonian Lecture in 1939. From 1932 to 1936 he was Physician to King George V's household and then Physician Extraordinary to the king. Ry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rye (UK Parliament Constituency)
Rye was a United Kingdom constituencies, parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Rye, East Sussex, Rye in East Sussex. It returned two Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Members of Parliament to the Parliament of England before 1707, Parliament of Great Britain until 1801 and the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until its representation was halved under the Reform Act 1832. From the 1832 United Kingdom general election, 1832 general election, Rye returned one Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament until its abolition for the 1950 United Kingdom general election, 1950 general election, when the town of Rye itself was transferred to the redrawn Hastings (UK Parliament constituency), Hastings constituency. The constituency was re-created for the 1955 United Kingdom general election, 1955 general election, and abolished again for the 1983 United Kingdom general election, 1983 general ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Langdon-Davies
John Eric Langdon-Davies (18 March 1897 – 5 December 1971) was a British author and journalist. He was a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War and the Soviet-Finnish War. As a result of his experiences in Spain, he founded the Foster Parents' Scheme for refugee children in Spain, which is now the aid organisation Plan International."My Country Right or Left:John Langdon-Davies and Catalonia" in Tom Buchanan, ''The Impact of the Spanish Civil War on Britain: War, Loss And Memory'', pp. 141–157. Sussex Academic Press, 2007 . Author of books on military, scientific, historical and Spanish subjects, Langdon-Davies has been described as "an accomplished war correspondent" and "a brilliant populariser of science and technology". Early life Langdon-Davies was born in Eshowe, Zululand (now in South Africa) in 1897. He was the son of the teacher Guy Langdon-Davies (died 1900), who described himself as "a Huxleyan, a Voltairean and a Tolstoyan pacifist." Stanley J. Kuni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiverton (UK Parliament Constituency)
Tiverton was a United Kingdom constituencies, constituency located in Tiverton, Devon, Tiverton in east Devon, formerly represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of England until 1707, Great Britain until 1800 and after 1801 the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Enfranchised as a parliamentary borough in 1615 and first represented in 1621, it elected two Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Members of Parliament (MPs) by the first past the post system of election until 1885. The name was then transferred to a county constituency electing one MP. (Between 1885 and 1918, the constituency was alternatively called Devon, North East.) In 1997, it was merged with the neighbouring constituency of Honiton (UK Parliament constituency), Honiton to form the Tiverton and Honiton (UK Parliament constituency), Tiverton and Honiton constituency. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Lord Palmerston w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cirencester And Tewkesbury (UK Parliament Constituency)
Cirencester and Tewkesbury was a United Kingdom constituencies, parliamentary constituency in Gloucestershire which returned one Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 1918 United Kingdom general election, 1918 general election and abolished for the 1997 United Kingdom general election, 1997 general election when it was partly replaced by the new constituencies of Cotswold (UK Parliament constituency), Cotswold and Tewkesbury (UK Parliament constituency), Tewkesbury. History The only party to have returned an MP for this constituency was the Conservatives, who represented it for most of the seat's existence. The exception was the period from 1951 to 1959, when William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil, William Morrison, first elected as a Conservative, became the Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom), Speaker of the Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
