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Esher (UK Parliament Constituency)
Esher was a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. In the general elections during its 47-year lifetime it was won by three Conservatives Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy and ideology that seeks to promote and preserve traditional institutions, customs, and values. The central tenets of conservatism may vary in relation to the culture and civilizati ... successively. In area it shrank in 1974, then regrew in 1983 taking in four sparsely inhabited wards which proved to be temporary, as omitted from the successor seat, Esher and Walton. Boundaries 1950–1974: Urban Districts of Esher, and Walton and Weybridge. 1974–1983: The Urban District of Esher. Walton, Hersham, Weybridge and Oatlands were transferred to the new Chertsey and Walton (UK Parliament constituency), Chertsey and Walton seat. 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epsom (UK Parliament Constituency)
Epsom is a town in the borough of Epsom and Ewell in Surrey, England, about south of central London. The town is first recorded as ''Ebesham'' in the 10th century and its name probably derives from that of a Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Saxon landowner. The earliest evidence of human activity is from the mid-Bronze Age Britain, Bronze Age, but the modern settlement probably grew up in the area surrounding St Martin's Church in the 6th or 7th centuries and the street pattern is thought to have become established in the England in the Middle Ages, Middle Ages. Today the High Street is dominated by the clock tower, which was erected in 1847–8. Like other nearby settlements, Epsom is located on the spring line settlement, spring line where the permeable chalk of the North Downs meets the impermeable London Clay. Several tributaries of the Hogsmill River rise in the town and in the 17th and early 18th centuries, the spring on Epsom Common was believed to have healing quali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingston And Surbiton (UK Parliament Constituency)
Kingston and Surbiton () is a Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, constituency in Greater London created in 1997 United Kingdom general election, 1997 and represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 United Kingdom general election, 2017 by Ed Davey, the Leader of the Liberal Democrats. Davey previously held the seat from 1997 until losing reelection in 2015 United Kingdom general election, 2015 to Conservative Party (UK), Conservative James Berry (barrister), James Berry. Kingston and Surbiton has been considered a marginal seat, as well as a swing seat since 2010 United Kingdom general election, 2010, as the seat has changed hands twice since that year, while its winner's majority did not exceed 6.6% of the vote since the 13.2% majority won in 2010. In 2019 United Kingdom general election, 2019, Davey won a 17.2% majority and a majority of the votes cast; the seat is now regarded as a safe seat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1964 United Kingdom General Election
The 1964 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 15 October 1964. It resulted in the Conservatives, led by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home, narrowly losing to the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party, led by Harold Wilson; Labour secured a parliamentary majority of four seats and ended its thirteen years in opposition since the 1951 United Kingdom general election, 1951 election. At age 47, Wilson became the youngest Prime Minister since Lord Rosebery in 1894. Background Both major parties had changed leadership in 1963. Following the sudden death of Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell early in the year, the party chose Harold Wilson (at the time, thought of as being on the party's centre-left), while Alec Douglas-Home, at the time the Earl of Home, had taken over as Conservative leader and Prime Minister in October after Harold Macmillan announced his resignation in the wake of the Profumo affair. Douglas-Home shortly afterward discla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1959 United Kingdom General Election
The 1959 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 8 October 1959. The Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party under the leadership of incumbent prime minister Harold Macmillan won a landslide victory with a majority of 100 seats. This was their third election victory in a row. The Conservatives won the largest number of votes in Scotland, but narrowly failed to win the most seats in that country. They have not made either achievement ever since. Both Jeremy Thorpe, a future Liberal leader, and Margaret Thatcher, a future Conservative leader and eventually Prime Minister, first entered the House of Commons following this election. Background Following the Suez Crisis in 1956, Anthony Eden, the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Prime Minister, became unpopular. He resigned early in 1957, and was succeeded by Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan. At that point, the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party, whose leader Hugh Gaitskell had succeeded Clement Attlee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1955 United Kingdom General Election
The 1955 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 26 May 1955. It was a snap election: Anthony Eden called the election after succeeding Winston Churchill, Churchill in April 1955 to secure a mandate. The Eden ministry, government won a 60-seat majority, achieving the highest post-war party vote share. It was the first election under Elizabeth II, Queen Elizabeth II. Results The election was fought on new boundaries, with five seats added to the 625 fought in 1951. At the same time, the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party had returned to power for the first time since World War II and increased its popularity by accepting the mixed economy and Welfare state in the United Kingdom, welfare state created by the previous Labour Party (UK), Labour Party government. It also was lauded for its economic policy after ending Rationing in the United Kingdom, rationing, improving foreign trade, and even outperforming Labour in the construction of Public housing in the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1951 United Kingdom General Election
The 1951 United Kingdom general election was held twenty months after the 1950 United Kingdom general election, 1950 general election, which the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party had won with a slim majority of just five seats. The Labour government called a snap election for Thursday 25 October 1951 in the hope of increasing its parliamentary majority. This election is remarkable for the fact that despite the Labour Party winning the popular vote (48.8%) and achieving the highest-ever total vote (13,948,385) at the time, the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party won a majority of 17 seats. This unusual phenomenon can be attributed to the collapse of the Liberal vote, which enabled the Conservatives to win seats by default. The Labour Party has never gone on to equal or surpass the voteshare or the total vote that it acquired in this election. The Conservatives, however, would break the record of the highest votes in 1992 United Kingdom general election, 1992 and again i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heather Joan Harvey
Heather Joan Harvey (September 1899 – 1989), was a British writer and Liberal Party politician. Background Harvey was educated privately at Prior's Field School, Godalming, and Newnham College, Cambridge Newnham College is a women's constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1871 by a group organising Lectures for Ladies, members of which included philosopher Henry Sidgwick and suffragist campaigner Millicen ..., where she graduated in 1921 with first-class honours, economics tripos. In 1973 she was appointed a CBE for political services in the Queen's Birthday Honours. Professional career Harvey joined the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, in 1931. She became secretary of the Study Groups Department in 1935. She was a temporary Civil servant in the Foreign Office, 1939–45. She served with the United Nations 1945–46 as deputy administrative secretary. She was a writer and was engaged in historical research ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethel Chipchase
Ethel Eleanor Beatrice Chipchase (February 1916 – 1 February 1986) was a British people, British trade unionist. Born in Poplar, London, Chipchase grew up in poverty, during the Great Depression. She later stated that during the whole period, her father never had a full week's work, and her mother helped raise money by working as a dressmaker. She attended Sir John Cass Technical Institute and Morley College. Chipchase found work as a railway clerk, and joined the Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA). She also became active in the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party, standing for the party in Esher (UK Parliament constituency), Esher at the 1950 United Kingdom general election, taking second place with 28.6% of the vote. In 1962, Chipchase moved to work for the Trades Union Congress (TUC), initially as Woman Officer in its Organisation Department. She later became Secretary of its Women's Advisory Committee. She was also appointed to the Equal Opportunities Commission (UK) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1997 United Kingdom General Election
The 1997 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 1 May 1997. The governing Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party led by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister John Major was defeated in a Landslide victory, landslide by the opposition Labour Party (UK), Labour Party led by Tony Blair, achieving a 179-seat majority and a total of 418 seats. This was the first victory for the Labour party in a general election in nearly 23 years, its previous one registering a majority of 3 seats in October 1974 United Kingdom general election, October 1974 under the leadership of Harold Wilson. It was also Labour's first comprehensive victory over the Conservatives since the 1966 United Kingdom general election, 1966 election, which had produced a 100-seat majority. This election also marked Labour's highest vote share since the 1970 United Kingdom general election, 1970 election and its second highest total number of votes in history (the largest being the 1951 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Taylor (UK Politician)
Ian Colin Taylor MBE (born 18 April 1945) is a British former Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Esher from 1987 to 1997, and then for Esher and Walton from 1997 to 2010. Early life He went to Whitley Abbey School, Abbey Road, Coventry. He was an accomplished sprinter and played rugby for Warwickshire Schools. He studied at Keele University, receiving a BA (Hons) in Economics, Politics and Modern History in 1967. He then did research at the London School of Economics. He chaired both the Federation of Conservative Students and the European Christian Democrat and Conservative Students 1967-70. In 1969, he joined Hill Samuel & Co. In 1971, he became the manager of the European Department at Stirling & Co. From 1975 to 1979, he joined a bank and lived in Paris. He was a Director for corporate finance of Mathercourt Securities Ltd from 1980 to 1991. He is an Associate of thUK Society of Investment Professionalsand a Liveryman of the Worsh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1987 United Kingdom General Election
The 1987 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 11 June 1987, to elect 650 members to the House of Commons. The election was the third consecutive general election victory for the Conservative Party, who won a majority of 102 seats and second landslide under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher, who became the first Prime Minister since the Earl of Liverpool in 1820 to lead a party into three successive electoral victories. The Conservatives ran a campaign focusing on lower taxes, a strong economy and strong defence. They also emphasised that unemployment had just fallen below the 3 million mark for the first time since 1981, and inflation was standing at 4%, its lowest level since the 1960s. National newspapers also continued to largely back the Conservative government, particularly ''The Sun'', which ran anti– Labour Party articles with headlines such as "Why I'm backing Kinnock, by Stalin". Labour, led by Neil Kinnock following Michael Foot's resigna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol Mather
Sir David Carol MacDonnell Mather (3 January 19193 July 2006) was a British soldier and politician. After serving 22 years in the British Army, he was the Member of Parliament for Esher from 1970 until 1987. During his political career he held the offices of Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household, and Comptroller of the Household. Early life Mather was born in Adlington, Cheshire, the younger son of Loris Emerson Mather and Gwendoline Leila Morley. His family owned Mather and Platt, an engineering company in Manchester, which was chaired by his father and later managed by his elder brother, William. His grandfather was Sir William Mather, who sat as MP for successively Salford South, Gorton and Rossendale from 1885 to 1904. Mather was educated at Amesbury, Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, and then joined his elder brother at the family company as an apprentice for a short period. Second World War He joined the Welsh Guards at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
