Sir John Bamford Slack (11 July 1857 – 11 February 1909) was a British politician, member of the

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and

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lay preacher.

Life

Slack was born in

Ripley, Derbyshire Ripley is a market town and civil parish in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire, England. It is northeast of Derby, northwest of Heanor, southwest of Alfreton and northeast of Belper. The town is continuous with Heanor, Eastwood, Nottingham ...

in 1857. His Liberal Wesleyan Methodist parents were Mary Ann (born Bamford) and Thomas Slack. His maternal grandfather made bricks and his younger sister was the temperance activist

Agnes Elizabeth Slack Agnes Elizabeth Slack or Agnes Elizabeth Saunders (15 October 1858 – 16 January 1946) was a leading United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, English Temperance movement, Temperance advocate. Life Slack was born in Ripley, Derbyshire in 185 ...

. He was elected to the

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for the constituency of

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at the 1904 St Albans by-election, replacing Vicary Gibbs. In 1905, he introduced a bill for

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, which was talked out. He received a knighthood. He married Alice Maud Mary Bretherton (died 1932), who after his death; became the first wife of Sir Banister Flight Fletcher.National Portrait Gallery - Alice Maud Mary Bretherton
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* 1857 births 1909 deaths Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1900–1906 People from Ripley, Derbyshire Knights Bachelor {{England-Liberal-UK-MP-stub