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Barons Court (London County Council Constituency)
Barons Court was a constituency used for elections to the London County Council London County Council (LCC) was the principal local government body for the County of London throughout its existence from 1889 to 1965, and the first London-wide general municipal authority to be directly elected. It covered the area today kno ... between 1955 and the council's abolition, in 1965. The seat shared boundaries with the UK Parliament constituency of the same name. Councillors Election results References {{London County Council London County Council constituencies Politics of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London County Council
London County Council (LCC) was the principal local government body for the County of London throughout its existence from 1889 to 1965, and the first London-wide general municipal authority to be directly elected. It covered the area today known as Inner London and was replaced by the Greater London Council. The LCC was the largest, most significant and most ambitious English municipal authority of its day. History By the 19th century, the City of London Corporation covered only a small fraction of metropolitan London. From 1855, the Metropolitan Board of Works (MBW) had certain powers across the metropolis, but it was appointed rather than elected. Many powers remained in the hands of traditional bodies such as parishes and the counties of Middlesex, Surrey and Kent. The creation of the LCC in 1889, as part of the Local Government Act 1888, was forced by a succession of scandals involving the MBW, and was also prompted by a general desire to create a competent government fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fulham East (London County Council Constituency)
Fulham East was a constituency used for elections to the London County Council London County Council (LCC) was the principal local government body for the County of London throughout its existence from 1889 to 1965, and the first London-wide general municipal authority to be directly elected. It covered the area today kno ... between 1919 and 1955. The seat shared boundaries with the UK Parliament constituency of the same name. It was largely replaced by a new Fulham constituency. Councillors Election results References {{London County Council London County Council constituencies Politics of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Fulham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fulham West (London County Council Constituency)
Fulham West was a constituency used for elections to the London County Council between 1919 and 1955. The seat shared boundaries with the Fulham West (UK Parliament constituency), UK Parliament constituency of the same name. It was largely replaced by a new Fulham (London County Council constituency), Fulham constituency. Councillors Election results References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hammersmith South (London County Council Constituency)
Hammersmith South was a constituency used for elections to the London County Council London County Council (LCC) was the principal local government body for the County of London throughout its existence from 1889 to 1965, and the first London-wide general municipal authority to be directly elected. It covered the area today kno ... between 1919 and 1955. The seat shared boundaries with the UK Parliament constituency of the same name. Part was moved into Hammersmith North, and the remainder became part of a new Barons Court constituency. Councillors Election results References {{London County Council London County Council constituencies Politics of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Hammersmith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barons Court (UK Parliament Constituency)
Barons Court was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1955 to 1974. It was represented by one Member of Parliament (MP), elected by the first-past-the-post system of election. Boundaries Barons Court was a borough constituency of the parliamentary County of London. It was created from parts of three abolished constituencies in 1955: the bulk of Hammersmith South and parts of Fulham West and Fulham East. It was composed of the northern end of the Metropolitan Borough of Fulham (Barons Court, Margravine, and Lillie wards) and the southern section of the Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith (Broadway, Brook Green, Grove, and Ravenscourt wards). It did not include the whole of either Metropolitan Borough.F A Youngs Jr., ''Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England'', Vol I: Southern England, London, 1979 When local government in London was reformed in 1965, the area became part of the London Borough of Hammersmith in Greater ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1955 London County Council Election
An election to the County Council of London took place on 31 March 1955. The council was elected by First Past the Post with each elector having three votes in the three-member seats. The Conservative Party made significant gains, but the Labour Party retained a substantial majority. The size of the council was cut by three members, with Fulham East, Fulham West and Hammersmith South abolished, and replaced in part by the new constituencies of Barons Court and Fulham. This mirrored changes to constituencies for the House of Commons which were implemented at the 1955 general election, shortly afterwards. Campaign The Labour Party began their campaign with a celebration at the Royal Festival Hall, to mark twenty-one years of running the council, and the twenty-fifth anniversary of the '' Daily Herald''. A newspaper strike limited coverage of the election; the ''Manchester Guardian'' noted that there were fewer posters and fewer meetings than in previous elections, although ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Banfield
Frank Walter Banfield (14 August 1905 – 31 March 1970) was a British politician, who served on the London County Council and Greater London Council. The youngest son of William Banfield, Frank followed him into the Labour Party and local politics in Fulham. He served on Fulham Metropolitan Borough Council for 26 years, and was Mayor of Fulham in 1952/53. He was elected in the 1946 London County Council election, representing Fulham West, and was vice chair of the council in 1953/54. He also served as chair of the council's river, drainage and sewerage committee, a role in which he began investigating the possibility of a Thames Barrier. In 1955, the London County Council constituencies were reorganised, and Banfield moved to represent Barons Court, remaining there until the council was abolished in 1965. He became an alderman on its replacement, the Greater London Council, and contested Hammersmith at the 1970 Greater London Council election The third electio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom that has been described as an alliance of social democrats, democratic socialists and trade unionists. The Labour Party sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum. In all general elections since 1922, Labour has been either the governing party or the Official Opposition. There have been six Labour prime ministers and thirteen Labour ministries. The party holds the annual Labour Party Conference, at which party policy is formulated. The party was founded in 1900, having grown out of the trade union movement and socialist parties of the 19th century. It overtook the Liberal Party to become the main opposition to the Conservative Party in the early 1920s, forming two minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in the 1920s and early 1930s. Labour served in the wartime coalition of 1940–1945, after which Clement Attlee's Labour government established the National Health Service and expanded the welfa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Fiske
William Geoffrey Fiske, Baron Fiske, CBE (3 July 1905 – 13 January 1975) was a British politician who was the first Leader of the Greater London Council and oversaw the decimalisation of the pound sterling as Chairman of the Decimal Currency Board. Early life Fiske came from a middle-class family with radical sympathies who often discussed politics, with his maternal grandfather being a particularly strong influence. In his early life, Fiske's main interest was in the art of ancient Greece. He was sent to Berkhamsted Collegiate School, and upon leaving, went to work for the Bank of England. After twelve years at the Bank, he took advantage of its generous pension scheme and left in 1935, and began to work as a Company Secretary. Career When World War II broke out, Fiske was drafted as a specialist into the Civil Service where he founded the Society of Civil Servants. The war helped to energise him in politics generally and he unsuccessfully fought the constituency of Horns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1958 London County Council Election
An election to the County Council of London took place on 16 April 1958. The council was elected by First Past the Post with each elector having three votes in the three-member seats. The Labour Party, who had already run the council for 24 years, won their largest ever majority. Campaign The Labour Party were optimistic about making gains, and targeted seats in Battersea South, Clapham, Lewisham West, Wandsworth Central and Woolwich West. The Conservatives targeted the marginal Labour-held constituencies of Barons Court, Kensington North and Paddington North. Their manifesto argued that the Labour Party were wasting money; they proposed reducing rates, and encouraged Londoners to move to new towns. The Liberal Party stood 31 candidates, but reports suggested that they were hampered by poor organisation, and were not optimistic of taking a seat. The Communist Party of Great Britain and the Independent Labour Party each stood four candidates, while the Socialist Party ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audrey Lees (politician)
Lucy Audrey Lees (7 September 1906 – 22 February 2006) was a British politician. Born in Oxford as Lucy Audrey Lynam, she was educated at a convent school, and knew John Betjeman in her youth; he mentioned her in '' Summoned by Bells''. Lees trained as a children's nurse, and qualified when she was 20, working at Paddington Green Children's Hospital in London. She left to study social science at the London School of Economics, and became an almoner for St Thomas' Hospital. In 1938, she married Stanley Lees and had 4 children; Joanna, Richard, Gill and Christopher. Lees strongly supported the creation of the National Health Service, and this spurred her to join the Labour Party. At the 1952 London County Council election, she was elected in Hammersmith South. The seat was replaced by Barons Court at the 1955 election, and she was defeated, but she regained the seat at the 1958 election. On the council, Lees' main interest was education, and in 1962 she was co-o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Carr (politician)
William Compton Carr (10 July 1918 – December 2000) was a British solicitor and Conservative Party politician. Educated at the Leys School, Cambridge, he became a solicitor. Political career Active in Conservative politics, he became a member of the London County Council in October 1956 when he was selected to fill an aldermanic vacancy, having failed to be elected to the council in the previous year. His term of office expired in 1958, but he returned to the council in 1961, and remained a member until its abolition in 1965. In the 1959 landslide election, Carr was elected member of parliament (MP) for the seat of Barons Court in west London overturning a small Labour Party majority of 125 to win the seat by 913 votes. He served until the 1964 general election, when Labour regained the seat. Imprisonment and bankruptcy Following his exit from parliament, it emerged that Carr had been amassing a serious debt while an MP. In 1971 he was found guilty of fraud in the Centr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
