Clyde Tabor Wilson (21 September 1889 – 13 November 1971) was a British Conservative Party

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. Born in

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, he moved to London to study law and was

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at the

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in 1913. From 1925 to 1935 he sat as a

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councillor representing Wandsworth Central on the

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. The Municipal Reformers were allied to the parliamentary Conservatives. At the 1931 general election, he was elected member of parliament (MP) for Liverpool West Toxteth, winning the seat with a large majority over the sitting Labour Party MP, Joseph Gibbins. This was Wilson's second attempt to enter

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– he had unsuccessfully contested the 1929 general election in the Labour-held London constituency of Lambeth North. In 1934 he was appointed

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of Birkenhead. He served less than four years in the

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, resigning his seat in 1935 to become a Metropolitan Police magistrate. At the resulting by-election in July 1935, Gibbins regained the seat. Wilson retired from his post as magistrate in 1962. He died at his home in

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in 1971, aged 82.

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* 1889 births 1971 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Members of the Inner Temple Members of London County Council UK MPs 1931–1935 Stipendiary magistrates (England and Wales) {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1880s-stub