Joshua Milne Cheetham, JP, MP (22 May 1835 – 27 November 1902) was a

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Cheetham was born in 1835 to James and Alice (''née'' Greenwood) Cheetham of Crough House,

Shaw and Crompton Shaw and Crompton is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, and lies on the River Beal at the foothills of the South Pennines. It is located north of Oldham, south-east of Rochdale and north- ...

. Prior to his election to parliament, he ran the family firm James Cheetham and Sons, cotton manufacturers, in

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, and was Chairman of the Oldham Joint Stock Bank and a justice of the peace for

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. After contesting Oldham constituency unsuccessfully in 1886, he again took part in the July 1892 general election and was elected to the

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for the Oldham constituency. He was a Liberal, and favoured

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for

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and the

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programme in general. He sat in the House of Commons until his retirement in 1895. Cheetham married in 1862 Sarah Crompton, daughter of Abram Crompton. He died of pneumonia at his home at Eyford Park,

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, age 67.

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1835 births 1902 deaths History of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Politics of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham UK MPs 1892–1895 People from Shaw and Crompton {{England-Liberal-UK-MP-stub

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