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Sowerby (UK Parliament Constituency)
Sowerby () was a county constituency centred on the village of Sowerby, West Yorkshire, Sowerby in Calderdale, West 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. History The constituency was created for the 1885 United Kingdom general election, 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1983 United Kingdom general election, 1983 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new Calder Valley (UK Parliament constituency), Calder Valley constituency. Boundaries 1885–1918: 1918–1950: The Municipal Borough of Todmorden, the Urban Districts of Barkisland, Hebden Bridge, Luddendenfoot, Midgley, Mytholmroyd, Rishworth, Sowerby, Sowerby Bridge, and Soyland, the Rural District of Todmorden, and the civil parish of Norland in the Rural District of Halifax. 1950–1983: The Municipal Borough of Todmorden, the Urban Districts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John William Mellor
John William Mellor PC DL QC (26 July 1835 – 13 October 1911) was an English lawyer and Liberal Party politician. Born in London, the eldest of the eight sons of Rt Hon. Sir John Mellor, of Otterhead, Devonshire, a Judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court, Mellor was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. In 1860 he married Caroline Paget, daughter of Charles Paget, MP. He became a barrister of the Inner Temple in 1860, a Queen's Counsel in 1875 and a Bencher in 1877. He was Recorder of Grantham from 1871 to 1874 and Judge Advocate General from February to August 1886. In 1878 Mellor was involved in the '' Whistler v Ruskin'' libel trial. He was Liberal Member of Parliament for Grantham from 1880 to 1886 and for Sowerby, Yorkshire from 1892 until 1904, when he retired from Parliament. In Parliament, he was Chairman of Ways and Means & Deputy Speaker to Arthur Wellesley Peel from 1893 to 1895, and was a member of the Royal Commissions on Tweed and S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Shaw (MP)
Lieutenant-Colonel Geoffrey Reginald Devereux Shaw (29 May 1896 – 8 September 1960) was a British barrister, and the Conservative MP for Sowerby. Early career Shaw was educated at Cheltenham College and King's College, Cambridge. On the outbreak of the First World War he joined the 5th Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, serving as an officer with them until February 1916, then transferring to the East Riding Yeomanry until the end of the war. He returned to Cambridge to study law, and in 1923 was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple. In 1924 he married Elizabeth Fuller, daughter of Admiral Sir Cyril Fuller; they had two sons and three daughters. Elizabeth Shaw was made an MBE in 1945 for her work supporting the St John Ambulance Brigade. Parliament He entered politics in 1924, as the Conservative candidate for Sowerby in West Yorkshire. Sowerby was a historically Liberal seat, but the appearance of Labour candidates since 1918 had made it possible for Conse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1924 United Kingdom General Election
The 1924 United Kingdom general election was held on Wednesday 29 October 1924, as a result of the defeat of the Labour minority government, led by Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, in the House of Commons on a motion of no confidence. It was the third general election to be held in less than two years. Parliament was dissolved on 9 October. The Conservatives, led by Stanley Baldwin, performed better, in electoral terms, than in the 1923 general election and obtained a large parliamentary majority of 209. Labour, led by MacDonald, lost 40 seats. The election also saw the Liberal Party, led by H. H. Asquith, lose 118 of their 158 seats which helped to polarise British politics between the Labour Party and the Conservative Party. The Conservative landslide victory and the Labour defeat in this general election have been, in part, attributed to the Zinoviev letter, a forged document that was published as if it were genuine and sensationalised in the '' Daily Mail'' four days ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnold Williams (Liberal MP)
Arnold Williams (30 September 1890 – 1 January 1958) was a British businessman and Liberal politician. Family and education Arnold Williams was the son of S W Williams, a Manchester chartered accountant. He was educated privately and at Victoria University of Manchester. In 1915 he married Bessie Clarke Morland. They had one son and a daughter.''Who was Who'', Oxford University Press, 2007 In the 1920s Williams lived at Thorpe House in the village of Triangle, an area of Calderdale on the main turnpike road between Sowerby Bridge and Ripponden in the Ryburn valley. Career In business, Williams was the managing director of National Screen Service Ltd., a firm connected with the film distribution industry. Politics Williams contested the West Riding seat of Sowerby in the 1922 general election. This was a four-cornered contest with Conservative, Labour and Lloyd George National Liberal candidates in addition to Williams for the Liberals. He fought the constituency again at ... [...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] |
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] |
William Simpson-Hinchliffe
William Algernon Simpson-Hinchcliffe (1880–1963) was Conservative MP for Sowerby. He contested the seat at a by-election in 1904 and the 1906 general election. He won the seat in 1922, but lost it to the Liberals in 1923.‘SIMPSON-HINCHLIFFE, William Algernon’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 201accessed 24 May 2020/ref> Sources *Craig, FWS, ed. (1974). ''British Parliamentary Election Results: 1885-1918'' London: Macmillan Press. p. 448. . *''Whitaker's Almanack ''Whitaker's'' is a reference book, published annually in the United Kingdom. It was originally published by J. Whitaker & Sons from 1868 to 1997, next by HM Stationery Office until 2003 and then by A. & C. Black, which became a wholly owne ...'', 1905 to 1907, 1923 and 1924 editions Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Politicians from Yorkshire 1880 births 1963 de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1922 United Kingdom General Election
The 1922 United Kingdom general election was held on Wednesday 15 November 1922. It was won by the Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law, which gained an overall majority over the Labour Party, led by J. R. Clynes, and a divided Liberal Party. This election is considered one of political realignment, with the Liberal Party falling to third-party status. The Conservative Party went on to spend all but eight of the next forty-two years as the largest party in Parliament, and Labour emerged as the main competition to the Conservatives. The election was the first not to be held in Southern Ireland, due to the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty on 6 December 1921, under which Southern Ireland was to secede from the United Kingdom as a Dominion – the Irish Free State – on 6 December 1922. This reduced the size of the House of Commons by nearly one hundred seats when compared to the previous election. Background The Liberal Party had divided into two f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NADSS
The National Association of Discharged Sailors and Soldiers (NADSS) was a British veterans' organisation. The group was founded in early 1917 at a conference in Blackburn, drawing together various local groups representing working men who had served in World War I but had since been discharged. It campaigned for better pensions, and more opportunities for re-training. Led by James Howell, it developed links with trade unions and the Labour Party. The association sponsored several candidates at the 1918 general election, forming part of what was termed the " Silver Badge Party". Robert Hewitt Barker was elected in Sowerby, having been endorsed by the local branch, but not by the executive, and acting essentially as an independent Conservative. Around this time, the group severed its links with the labour movement, and became more conservative in outlook, moving closer to the Comrades of the Great War group. In 1919, J.M. Hogge replaced Howell as President. In 1921, it m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent (politician)
An independent politician or non-affiliated politician is a politician not affiliated with any political party or bureaucratic association. There are numerous reasons why someone may stand for office as an independent. Some politicians have political views that do not align with the platforms of any political party and therefore they choose not to affiliate with them. Some independent politicians may be associated with a party, perhaps as former members of it or else have views that align with it, but choose not to stand in its name, or are unable to do so because the party in question has selected another candidate. Others may belong to or support a political party at the national level but believe they should not formally represent it (and thus be subject to its policies) at another level. In some cases, a politician may be a member of an unregistered party and therefore officially recognised as an independent. Officeholders may become independents after losing or repudiating a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Hewitt Barker
Robert Hewitt Barker (1887 – 14 February 1961) was a British textile mill owner. He was the independent Member of Parliament for Sowerby, 1918–1922, with the support of the National Association of Discharged Sailors and Soldiers. He became joint owner of the firm of Luke Barker and Sons, cotton spinners in Todmorden. He was in the Lancashire Fusiliers in World War I World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ..., rising to the rank of Major. He stood for Parliament in 1918, but did not stand again in 1922. References External links *http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/robert_barker/sowerby UK MPs 1918–1922 Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies People from Todmorden 1887 births 1961 deaths Independent members of the House ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
