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Langton Brackenbury
Henry Langton Brackenbury (26 April 1868 – 28 April 1920) was a British Conservative Party politician who served for two short periods as Member of Parliament (MP) for Louth in Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (), abbreviated ''Lincs'', is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions of England. It is bordered by the East Riding of Yorkshire across the Humber estuary to th .... He was born in Colchester, Essex, to Major Henry Brackenbury and Anna Galliard Bowles. He was first elected at the general election in January 1910. However the victory was short-lived as he was defeated in the December 1910 general election by the Liberal candidate Timothy Davies. He regained the seat at the 1918 general election, but died in office in 1920, aged 52. The by-election after his death, was won by the Liberal candidate Thomas Wintringham. He died on the 28th of April 1920 at Headington, Oxfordshire. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative and Unionist Party, commonly the Conservative Party and colloquially known as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party. The party sits on the Centre-right politics, centre-right to Right-wing politics, right-wing of the Left–right political spectrum, left-right political spectrum. Following its defeat by Labour at the 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024 general election it is currently the second-largest party by the number of votes cast and number of seats in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons; as such it has the formal parliamentary role of His Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition. It encompasses various ideological factions including One-nation conservatism, one-nation conservatives, Thatcherism, Thatcherites and Traditionalist conservatism, traditionalist conservatives. There have been 20 Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, prime minis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louth, Lincolnshire (UK Parliament Constituency)
Louth was a county constituency in Lincolnshire 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 from 1885 United Kingdom general election, 1885 until it was abolished for the 1983 United Kingdom general election, 1983 general election. It should not be confused with the former Irish constituency of County Louth (UK Parliament constituency). Between 1885 and 1918, its formal name was The East Lindsey (or Louth) Division of Lincolnshire, and it was sometimes referred to simply as East Lindsey. Boundaries 1885–1918: The Sessional Divisions of Louth, Market Rasen, and Wragby, and parts of the Sessional Divisions of Alford, Grimsby, and Horncastle. 1918–1950: The Borough of Louth, the Urban Districts of Mablethorpe and Market Rasen, and the Rural Districts of Caistor, Grimsby, and Louth. 1950–1974: The Boroughs of Louth and Cleethorpes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire (), abbreviated ''Lincs'', is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions of England. It is bordered by the East Riding of Yorkshire across the Humber estuary to the north, the North Sea to the east, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and Rutland to the south, and Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire to the west. The county is predominantly rural, with an area of and a population of 1,095,010. After Lincoln (104,565), the largest towns are Grimsby (85,911) and Scunthorpe (81,286). For Local government in England, local government purposes Lincolnshire comprises a non-metropolitan county with seven districts, and the unitary authority areas of North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire. The last two areas are part of the Yorkshire and the Humber region, and the rest of the county is in the East Midlands. The non-metropolitan county council and two unitary councils collabora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
January 1910 United Kingdom General Election
The January 1910 UK general election was held from 15 January to 10 February 1910. Called amid a constitutional crisis after the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative-dominated House of Lords rejected the People's Budget, the Liberal Party (UK), Liberal government, seeking a mandate, lost their majority. The result was a hung parliament: Arthur Balfour’s Conservative Party (UK), Conservatives and their Liberal Unionist Party, Liberal Unionist allies won the most votes, but H. H. Asquith, Asquith’s Liberal Party (UK), Liberals secured the most seats, edging out the Conservatives by two. With Irish Parliamentary Party support, Asquith remained in power. Another election followed in December 1910 United Kingdom general election, December. The Labour Party (UK), Labour Party, led by Arthur Henderson, returned 40 MPs. Much of this apparent increase (from the 29 Labour MPs elected in 1906) came from the defection, a few years earlier, of Liberal-Labour (UK), Lib Lab MPs from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
December 1910 United Kingdom General Election
The December 1910 United Kingdom general election was held from 3 to 19 December. It was the last general election to be held over several days and the last to be held before the History of the United Kingdom during the First World War, First World War. The election took place following the efforts of the Liberal government to pass its People's Budget in 1909, which raised taxes on the wealthy to fund social welfare programmes. The 1909 budget was only agreed to by the House of Lords in April 1910 after the January 1910 United Kingdom general election, January general election in which the Liberals and the Irish Parliamentary Party gained a majority. The Government called a further election in December 1910 to get a mandate for the Parliament Act 1911, which would prevent the House of Lords from permanently blocking legislation linked to money bills ever again, and to obtain King George V's agreement to threaten to create sufficient Liberal peers to pass that act (in the event th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Party (UK)
The Liberal Party was one of the two Major party, major List of political parties in the United Kingdom, political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party, in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Beginning as an alliance of Whigs (British political party), Whigs, free trade–supporting Peelites, and reformist Radicals (UK), Radicals in the 1850s, by the end of the 19th century, it had formed four governments under William Ewart Gladstone. Despite being divided over the issue of Irish Home Rule, the party returned to government in 1905 and won a landslide victory in the 1906 United Kingdom general election, 1906 general election. Under Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, prime ministers Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1905–1908) and H. H. Asquith (1908–1916), the Liberal Party passed Liberal welfare reforms, reforms that created a basic welfare state. Although Asquith was the Leader of the Liberal Party (UK), party leader, its domin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timothy Davies (politician)
Timothy Davies (17 January 1857 – 22 August 1951) was a British Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party politician. He represented Fulham as a Borough Councillor, Borough Alderman, County Councillor, Mayor and Member of Parliament. Background Timothy Davies was born in Llanpumsaint, Carmarthenshire where he spent his childhood years until later moving to Liverpool to become an apprentice in the textile industry.http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/large.php?pic=ahcarmarth01515&page=48&mode=boolean&words=stone&idSearch=boolean&vadscoll=Public+Monuments+and+Sculpture+Association Public Monuments and Sculpture Association: Fountain donated by Timothy Davies to Carmarthen In 1885, he founded his own company in Fulham, London but maintained strong links with Wales as evidenced when he commissioned a stone fountain for Carmarthen Park in 1899. Political career In 1896 he was elected a member of Fulham Vestry as a Progressive Party (London), Progressive. He continued as a councillor of the new Metropol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1918 United Kingdom General Election
The 1918 United Kingdom general election was called immediately after the Armistice with Germany which ended the First World War, and was held on Saturday, 14 December 1918. The governing coalition, under Prime Minister David Lloyd George, sent letters of endorsement to candidates who supported the coalition government. These were nicknamed " Coalition Coupons", and led to the election being known as the "coupon election". The result was a massive landslide in favour of the coalition, comprising primarily the Conservatives and Coalition Liberals, with massive losses for Liberals who were not endorsed. Nearly all the Liberal MPs without coupons were defeated, including party leader H. H. Asquith. It was the first general election to be held after enactment of the Representation of the People Act 1918. It was thus the first election in which women over the age of 30 (with some property qualifications), and all men over the age of 21, could vote. Previously, all women and many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1920 Louth By-election
The 1920 Louth by-election was a parliamentary by-election for the British House of Commons constituency of Louth, Lincolnshire (UK Parliament constituency), Louth in Lincolnshire. Voting was held on 3 June 1920. The by-election took place five days after the Louth flood of 1920, Louth Flood of 29 May 1920 had claimed 23 lives. Vacancy The seat had become vacant on the death on 28 April of the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) Henry Langton Brackenbury. He had represented the constituency since the 1918 United Kingdom general election, 1918 general election, and previously been Louth's MP from January 1910 United Kingdom general election, January 1910 to December 1910 United Kingdom general election, December 1910. Electoral history The constituency was created in 1885. The Liberals had won the seat six times and the Unionists three times. It was a marginal seat in 1910 but in 1918 the Liberal MP, Timothy Davie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Wintringham (Liberal Politician)
Thomas Wintringham (22 August 1867 – 8 August 1921) was a British Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party politician. He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Louth, Lincolnshire (UK Parliament constituency), Louth in Lincolnshire at a 1920 Louth by-election, by-election in June 1920, but died in office the following year, aged 53. He died suddenly in the House of Commons reading room in the Palace of Westminster. The resulting 1921 Louth by-election, by-election in September 1921, Louth's second by-election in under 16 months, was won by his wife Margaret Wintringham, Margaret, who became the second woman to take a seat in the British House of Commons. References External links * 1867 births 1921 deaths Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1918–1922 Spouses of British politicians {{England-Liberal-UK-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Robert Perks, 1st Baronet
Sir Robert William Perks, 1st Baronet (24 April 1849 – 30 November 1934) was a British Liberal politician, lawyer, financier, and company director. He was the son of George Thomas Perks (1819–1877), a Wesleyan Methodist preacher (who served as minister of Wesley's Chapel from 1862 to 1865, and was elected president of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference in 1873). Robert W. Perks was educated at Kingswood School (1858–65), then at a private school in Clapham run by Henry Jefferson (former head of Kingswood), and at King's College London (1866–71). He was awarded a number of prestigious prizes at the Kings College prize-ceremonies of July 1867 and July 1868 and passed the Matriculation Examination for entry to London University held in June 1869. He passed the intermediary (also known as "first") examinations for his University of London B.A. in 1870 but never completed that degree. In March 1916 he was appointed a Fellow of King`s College. He sat the examinations to ente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
