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Manchester Ardwick (UK Parliament Constituency)
Manchester Ardwick was a United Kingdom constituencies, parliamentary constituency in the city of Manchester 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. Elections were held by the first past the post voting system. The constituency was established for the 1918 United Kingdom general election, 1918 general election and abolished for the 1983 United Kingdom general election, 1983 general election. Boundaries 1918–1950: The County Borough of Manchester wards of Ardwick, New Cross, and St Mark's. 1950–1955: The County Borough of Manchester wards of Ardwick, Longsight, New Cross, and St Mark's. 1955–1974: The County Borough of Manchester wards of Ardwick, Longsight, Rusholme, St Luke's, and St Mark's. 1974–1983: The County Borough of Manchester wards of Ardwick, Levenshulme, Longsight, and Rusholme. Members of Parliament ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manchester East (UK Parliament Constituency)
Manchester East was one of six single-member Parliamentary constituency, parliamentary constituencies created in 1885 by the division of the existing three-member Manchester (UK Parliament constituency), Parliamentary Borough of Manchester. The others were: Manchester South (UK Parliament constituency), Manchester South, Manchester North (UK Parliament constituency), Manchester North, Manchester North East (UK Parliament constituency), Manchester North East, Manchester North West (UK Parliament constituency), Manchester North West and Manchester South West (UK Parliament constituency), Manchester South West. They were all abolished in 1918. Boundaries The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and was defined as consisting of the following areas: *The Parish of Bradford, Manchester, Bradford, *The Parish of Ardwick, *The Parish of Beswick, Greater Manchester, Beswick, *The part of the Parish of Chorlton-upon-Medlock north of the centres of Cavendish S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Lowth
Thomas Lowth (4 November 1858 – 26 May 1931) was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ardwick, a constituency in Manchester, from 1922 until his death. He was a member of the Labour Party. Biography Lowth was born at Billingborough, Lincolnshire on 4 November 1858. Having received elementary school education, he entered the railway service with the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1875 and moved to Manchester Manchester () is a city and the metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. It had an estimated population of in . Greater Manchester is the third-most populous metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, with a population of 2.92&nbs .... He worked on the railway for 23 years, doing various jobs, then became the general secretary of the General Railway Workers' Union in 1898, a trade union he had helped to establish. Lowth died at the age of 72 in the Royal Northern Hospital in London. References External links * 1858 bi ... [...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] |
Gerald Kaufman
Sir Gerald Bernard Kaufman (21 June 1930 – 26 February 2017) was a British politician and author who served as a minister throughout the Labour government of 1974 to 1979. Elected as a Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), member of parliament (MP) at the 1970 United Kingdom general election, 1970 general election, he became Father of the House (United Kingdom), Father of the House in 2015 and served until his death in 2017. Born in Leeds to a Polish Jewish family, Kaufman was secretary of the Oxford University Labour Club while studying philosophy, politics and economics at The Queen's College, Oxford. After graduating from Oxford, he worked as a journalist at the ''Daily Mirror'' and the ''New Statesman'' and as a writer at BBC Television. Again becoming active in the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party, he served as an adviser to Harold Wilson during Wilson's Labour government, 1964–1970, first tenure as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister before being elect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970 United Kingdom General Election
The 1970 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 18 June 1970. It resulted in a surprise victory for the Conservative Party under leader Edward Heath, which defeated the governing Labour Party under Prime Minister Harold Wilson. The Liberal Party, under its new leader Jeremy Thorpe, lost half its seats. The Conservatives, including the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), secured a majority of 30 seats. This general election was the first in which people could vote from the age of 18, after passage of the Representation of the People Act the previous year, and the first UK election in which party affiliations of candidates were put on the ballots. Most opinion polls prior to the election indicated a comfortable Labour victory, and put Labour up to 12.4% ahead of the Conservatives. On election day, however, a late swing gave the Conservatives a 3.4% lead and ended almost six years of Labour government, although Wilson remained leader of the Labour Party in opposition. Wri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baron Lever
Baron is a rank of nobility or title of honour, often hereditary, in various European countries, either current or historical. The female equivalent is baroness. Typically, the title denotes an aristocrat who ranks higher than a lord or knight, but lower than a viscount or count. Often, barons hold their fief – their lands and income – directly from the monarch. Barons are less often the vassals of other nobles. In many kingdoms, they were entitled to wear a smaller form of a crown called a ''coronet''. The term originates from the Latin term , via Old French. The use of the title ''baron'' came to England via the Norman Conquest of 1066, then the Normans brought the title to Scotland and Southern Italy. It later spread to Scandinavian and Slavic lands. Etymology The word '':wikt:baron, baron'' comes from the Old French , from a Late Latin">-4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ... , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Lever, Baron Lever
Leslie Maurice Lever, Baron Lever, GCSG (29 April 1905 – 26 July 1977) was a British Labour politician. He was Member of Parliament for Manchester Ardwick from 1950 to 1970, when he retired. Subsequently, he was given a life peerage as Baron Lever, of Ardwick in the City of Manchester on 10 July 1975. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and read law at Leeds University. He was a solicitor and poor man's lawyer between 1928 and the advent of Legal Aid in 1948, funding his impecunious clients' cases out of his own pocket if they lost. His younger sister and three younger brothers were all lawyers. His brother Harold was also a Member of Parliament. He served as Lord Mayor of Manchester (1957–58), attending 2,700 official engagements. In his political career he represented inner-city slum areas, both as a councillor and an MP. He was knighted by Popes John XXIII and Paul VI Pope Paul VI (born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini; 26 September 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950 United Kingdom General Election
The 1950 United Kingdom general election was the first to be held after a full term of a majority Labour Party (UK), Labour government. The general election was held on Thursday 23 February 1950, and was also the first to be held following the abolition of plural voting and university constituencies. The government's majority over the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative opposition shrank dramatically, and Labour was returned to power but with an overall majority significantly reduced from 146 to just 5. There was a sizeable swing towards the Conservatives, who gained 90 seats. Labour called another 1951 United Kingdom general election, general election the following year, which the Conservative Party won, returning Churchill to government after six years in opposition. Turnout increased to 83.9%, the highest turnout in a UK general election under universal suffrage, and representing an increase of more than 11% in comparison to 1945 United Kingdom general election, 1945. It wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1935 United Kingdom General Election
The 1935 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 14 November 1935. It resulted in a second (though reduced) landslide victory for the three-party National Government, which was led by Stanley Baldwin of the Conservative Party after the resignation of Ramsay MacDonald due to ill health earlier in the year. It is the most recent British general election to have seen any party or alliance of parties win a majority of the popular vote. As in 1931, the National Government was a coalition of the Conservatives with small breakaway factions of the Labour and Liberal parties, and the group campaigned together under a shared manifesto on a platform of continuing its work addressing the economic crises caused by the Great Depression. The re-elected government was again dominated by the Conservatives, but, while the National Liberals remained relatively stable in terms of vote share and seats, National Labour lost most of its seats—including that of leader Ramsay Mac ... [...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] |
Albert Fuller (Conservative Politician)
Albert George Hubert Fuller (10 December 1894 – 27 July 1969) was a British Member of Parliament. Fuller served in the British Indian Army for many years, becoming a captain. He retired in 1931, in order to stand for the Conservative Party in Manchester Ardwick, winning the seat. Fuller lost his seat at the 1935 United Kingdom general election, and found work as commander of the 7th Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, serving until 1939. He then served on Sevenoaks Rural District Council A rural district was a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of the adm ... from 1947 until 1956. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Fuller, Albert 1894 births 1969 deaths British Indian Army officers Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Councillors in Kent UK MPs 1931–1935 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 United Kingdom General Election
The 1931 United Kingdom general election was held on Tuesday, 27 October 1931. It saw a landslide election victory for the National Government, a three-party coalition which had been formed two months previously after the collapse of the second Labour government. Journalist Ivor Bulmer-Thomas described the result as "the most astonishing in the history of the British party system". Unable to secure support from his cabinet for his preferred policy responses to the economic and social crises brought about by the Great Depression, Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald split from the Labour Party and formed a new national government in coalition with the Conservative Party and a number of Liberals. MacDonald subsequently campaigned for a "Doctor's Mandate" to do whatever was necessary to fix the economy, running as the leader of a new party called National Labour within the coalition. Disagreement over whether to join the new government also resulted in the Liberal Party splittin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
