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Morley (UK Parliament Constituency)
Morley was a United Kingdom constituencies, parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Morley, West Yorkshire, Morley in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It 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, elected by the first past the post system. The 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies proposes to re-establish the seat in its revised proposal. History The constituency was created when the two-member Southern West Riding of Yorkshire (UK Parliament constituency), Southern West Riding of Yorkshire constituency was divided by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 United Kingdom general election, 1885 general election. It was abolished for the 1918 United Kingdom general election, 1918 general election, when it was partly replaced by the new Batley and Morley (UK Parliament constituency), Batley and Morley constitu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern West Riding Of Yorkshire (UK Parliament Constituency)
Southern West Riding of Yorkshire was a United Kingdom constituencies, parliamentary constituency covering part of the historic West Riding of Yorkshire. It returned two Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the plurality-at-large voting, bloc vote system. History The constituency was created when the two-member West Riding of Yorkshire (UK Parliament constituency), West Riding of Yorkshire constituency was divided for the 1865 United Kingdom general election, 1865 general election by the Birkenhead Enfranchisement Act 1861 into two new constituencies, each returning two members: Northern West Riding of Yorkshire (UK Parliament constituency), Northern West Riding of Yorkshire and Southern West Riding of Yorkshire. The extra seats were taken from parliamentary boroughs which had been List of constituencies of the United Kingdom Parlia ... [...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] |
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] |
Herbert Smith (trade Unionist)
Herbert Smith (17 July 1862 – 16 June 1938) was a British trade unionist and miner. Born in Kippax, West Yorkshire, Smith was orphaned at a young age and spent time in a workhouse before being adopted by a local couple, one of whom was a miner. He later said that he never went to school. Smith then studied in Glasshoughton and Pontefract, and began working as a miner at the age of ten. Smith became active in his union, being elected to the branch committee at the age of seventeen, then in 1894 becoming a checkweighman. In 1896 he became Chairman of Castleford Trades Council, and in 1906 he became President of the Yorkshire Miners' Association. He joined the Independent Labour Party, and was elected to the West Riding County Council in 1903, and stood unsuccessfully for the Labour Party in Morley at the December 1910 general election. He was later elected as a councillor in Barnsley. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1906 United Kingdom General Election
The 1906 United Kingdom general election was held from 12 January to 8 February 1906. It is dubbed the "Liberal landslide": the opposition Liberal Party (UK), Liberals under Henry Campbell-Bannerman won a landslide victory against a bewildered Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party, in which its leader, Arthur Balfour, lost his seat; the party won the lowest number of seats it ever had in its history, a nadir unsurpassed until 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024. This particular landslide is now ranked alongside the 1924 United Kingdom general election, 1924, 1931 United Kingdom general election, 1931, 1945 United Kingdom general election, 1945, 1983 United Kingdom general election, 1983, 1997 United Kingdom general election, 1997, 2001 United Kingdom general election, 2001, and 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024 general elections as one of the largest landslide election victories. The Labour Party (UK)#Labour Representation Committee (1900–1906), Labour Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Boyd Carpenter
William Boyd Carpenter (26 March 1841 – 26 October 1918) was an English cleric in the Church of England who became Bishop of Ripon (modern diocese), Bishop of Ripon and Honorary Chaplain to the Queen, Royal Chaplain to Victoria of the United Kingdom, Queen Victoria. Background William Boyd Carpenter was the second son of Henry Carpenter, perpetual curate of St Michael's Church, Aigburth, Liverpool, who married (marriage licence 1837 in Derry) Hester Boyd, of Derry, sister of Archibald Boyd, Dean of Exeter.David Morris'Bishop Boyd Carpenter: Sheep or Shepherd in the Eugenics Movement?', ''The Galton Institute Newsletter'', 55, June 2005 Carpenter was the uncle of Mrs Henry Williams of Moor Park House, Beckwithshaw, North Yorkshire. In 1897 he consecrated Church of St Michael and All Angels, Beckwithshaw, St Michaels and All Angels Church at Beckwithshaw, after she and her husband had funded its construction. He was an advocate for the poor and against the caste system in In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1900 United Kingdom General Election
The 1900 United Kingdom general election was held between 26 September and 24 October 1900, following the dissolution of Parliament on 25 September. Also referred to as the Khaki Election (the first of several elections to bear Khaki election, this sobriquet), it was held at a time when it was widely believed that the Second Boer War had effectively been won (though in fact it was to continue for another two years). The Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party, led by Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Lord Salisbury with their Liberal Unionist Party, Liberal Unionist allies, secured a large majority of 134 seats, despite having received only 5.6% more votes than Henry Campbell-Bannerman's Liberal Party (UK), Liberals. This was largely owing to the Conservatives winning 163 seats that were uncontested by others. The Labour Representation Committee (1900), Labour Representation Committee, later to become the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party, participated in a gene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1895 United Kingdom General Election
The 1895 United Kingdom general election was held from 13 July to 7 August 1895. The result was a Conservative parliamentary majority of 153. William Ewart Gladstone, William Gladstone had retired as prime minister the previous year, and Queen Victoria, disregarding Gladstone's advice to name John Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer, Lord Spencer as his successor, appointed the Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Earl of Rosebery as the new prime minister. Rosebery's government found itself largely in a state of paralysis due to a power struggle between him and William Harcourt (politician), William Harcourt, the Liberal leader in the Commons. The situation came to a head on 21 June, when Parliament voted to dismiss Secretary of State for War Henry Campbell-Bannerman; Rosebery, realising that the government would likely not survive a motion of no confidence were one to be brought, promptly resigned as prime minister. Conservative Party (UK), Conservative leader Robert Arthur Talbot G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Carr (biographer)
William Carr (14 June 1862 – 28 January 1925) was a British biographer, historian, magistrate and Deputy Lieutenant for Norfolk, England. Life William Carr was born in Gomersal House, Yorkshire, to William Carr, magistrate and local squire. He was educated, first at Marlborough College, and then in 1882 went to University College, Oxford. His strength was in history where he won the three historical essay prizes: Stanhope (1884); Lothian (1888); and Arnold (1890). In 1886, Carr married Margaret, eldest daughter of James Franck Bright, Master of University College. He studied for the Bar, and having read with Lord Robson he joined the North-Eastern Circuit. He was a strong Conservative, and contested the Morley Division of Yorkshire in 1892 and 1895. To the ''Dictionary of National Biography'' he was a contributor, and later in life became a connoisseur especially of silver, furniture, pictures and Greek coins. During World War I he supported the Volunteer force in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Eddison Hutton
Alfred Eddison Hutton (31 December 1865 – 30 May 1947) was a British Liberal politician and manufacturer. Background Hutton was born and lived much of his life in Eccleshill, near Bradford on 31 December 1865 the son of James and Eliza Hutton, his father was a wool merchant. He was educated at Mill Hill School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He received a Bachelor of Arts in 1887 and a Master of Arts A Master of Arts ( or ''Artium Magister''; abbreviated MA or AM) is the holder of a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is usually contrasted with that of Master of Science. Those admitted to the degree have ... in 1891. Politics In 1892 he was elected as Liberal MP for Morley, in the West Riding of Yorkshire at the General Election. The seat had been Liberal since it was created in 1885 and remained so until it was abolished in 1918. In 1910 he retired from the House, not contesting the January General Election.A Liberal Chronicle - J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1886 United Kingdom General Election
The 1886 United Kingdom general election took place from 1 to 27 July 1886, following the defeat of the Government of Ireland Bill 1886. It resulted in a major reversal of the results of the 1885 election as the Conservatives, led by Lord Salisbury, were joined in an electoral pact with the breakaway Unionist wing of the Liberals led by Lord Hartington (later the Duke of Devonshire) and Joseph Chamberlain. The new Liberal Unionist party elected 77 members and gave the Conservatives their parliamentary majority, but did not join them in a formal coalition. William Ewart Gladstone's Liberals, who supported the Irish Home Rule movement, and their sometimes allies the Irish Parliamentary Party, led by Charles Stewart Parnell, were placed a distant second. The split in the Liberal Party ended the period of Liberal dominance. They had held power for 18 of the 27 years since 1859 and won five of the six elections held during that time, but would only be in power for three of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald France
Gerald Ashburner France (4 August 1870 – 11 February 1935) was a British businessman and importer and Liberal Party politician. Family and education Gerald Ashburner France was the son of James Ashburner France of Tynemouth and was rooted in the commercial and social life of the North East of England. His home was at Newbiggin Hall, Westerhope in Newcastle upon Tyne. In religion, France was a Methodist and he was educated at Rydal, a boarding school in North Wales founded in the Methodist tradition. In 1898, he married Hilda Bainbridge from Eshott in Northumberland. They had four sons and a daughter. Career France had a business career as an agent and importer in the North East. He rose to become governing director of the firm J A France & Co. of London and Newcastle as well as Chairman of Scott & Turner Ltd, a firm of Newcastle tinprinters. During the First World War, France served as a temporary lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. Politics Local politics F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
