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David Mort
David Llewellyn Mort (25 March 1888 – 1 January 1963) was a British Labour Party politician. Born in Briton Ferry, Glamorgan, he left school aged thirteen when his father died. After initially working in an outfitters shop, he subsequently entered the local steel works. From the age of sixteen he was a preacher in the Congregational Church. Mort joined the Independent Labour Party in 1906, and in 1915 became South Wales secretary of the Steel Trades Confederation. He was also involved in local politics as a member of Briton Ferry Urban District Council and Neath Borough Council. At the 1929 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Eccles. The Second Labour Government formed after the election subsequently collapsed and a National Government was formed. The government went to the country in a general election in October 1931. Mort, along with the majority of Labour MPs, lost his seat. Mort stood, unsuccessfully, at the 1935 general election i ... [...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] |
Bilston (UK Parliament Constituency)
Bilston was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Bilston in what is now the southeast of the city of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. As well as the town of Bilston, which had been heavily industrialised town since the 19th century, it also incorporated the nearby communities of Sedgley and Coseley, both of which were still predominantly rural villages when the parliamentary seat was created in 1918, but by the time the constituency changed from Wolverhampton Bilston to Bilston 32 years later they were rapidly expanding into towns, and had expanded further still when the constituency was finally abolished in 1974. History The area was created, as a Staffordshire borough constituency, for the 1918 general election. It was named as a division of Wolverhampton. From the 1950 general election the Wolverhampton prefix was dropped from the official consti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent Labour Party National Administrative Committee Members
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Welsh Labour Party MPs
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1963 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove River, Sydney, Australia. * January 2 – Vietnam War – Battle of Ap Bac: The Viet Cong win their first major victory. * January 9 – A total penumbral lunar eclipse is visible in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and is the 56th lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 114. Gamma has a value of −1.01282. It occurs on the night between Wednesday, January 9 and Thursday, January 10, 1963. * January 13 – 1963 Togolese coup d'état: A military coup in Togo results in the installation of coup leader Emmanuel Bodjollé as president. * January 17 – A last quarter moon occurs between the penumbral lunar eclipse and the annular solar eclipse, only 12 hours, 29 minutes after apogee. * January 19 – Soviet spy Gheorghe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1888 Births
In Germany, 1888 is known as the Year of the Three Emperors. Currently, it is the year that, when written in Roman numerals, has the most digits (13). The next year that also has 13 digits is the year 2388. The record will be surpassed as late as 2888, which has 14 digits. Events January–March * January 3 – The 91-centimeter telescope at Lick Observatory in California is first used. * January 12 – The Schoolhouse Blizzard hits Dakota Territory, the states of Montana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Texas, leaving 235 dead, many of them children on their way home from school. * January 13 – The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C. * January 21 – The Amateur Athletic Union is founded by William Buckingham Curtis in the United States. * January 26 – The Lawn Tennis Association is founded in England. * February 6 – Gillis Bildt becomes Prime Minister of Sweden (1888–1889). * February 27 – In West O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Davies (socialist)
Henry Davies (1888 – 1927) was a Welsh socialist politician and trade unionist. Born in Morfa, Davies worked as a coal miner, then as a checkweighman. He joined the Independent Labour Party (ILP), and was a founder member of the Aberavon Constituency Labour Party. He was elected to served on the National Administrative Committee of the ILP, as the representative of its Welsh Division, from 1910 until 1912, and again from 1925. He was also elected to Glamorgan County Council, and to Port Talbot Town Council, and was the Mayor of Port Talbot Port Talbot (, ) is a town and community in the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales, situated on the east side of Swansea Bay, approximately from Swansea. The Port Talbot Steelworks covers a large area of land which dominates the south ... in 1924. That year, he was also elected as chair of the ILP in South Wales. In political matters, Davies worked closely with Tal Mainwaring, often giving public speeches on socialism t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil McBride
Neil McBride (13 April 1910 – 9 September 1974) was a British Labour Party politician. He was Member of Parliament for Swansea East from a by-election in 1963 until his death, aged 64, shortly before the October 1974 general election. He was a government whip from 1966 to 1970. Life Neil McBride, named after his father, was born in Neilstown in Scotland. He attended his local Catholic school, St. Thomas's School and later the National Labour College. He worked for James Brown and Co. of Clydebank as a brass finisher until his election to parliament in 1963. McBride's hobbies included reading and the spread of socialism. He also was a keen traveller, travelling to various parts of Europe, Africa, South America and the Middle East. He married Delia Maloney from Paisley on 12 June 1937. They lived in Brynhyfryd, Swansea. Neil died on 9 September 1974 in his home after a seven-month illness. Political career McBride began his political career by joining the Amalga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Potter (Conservative Politician)
John Potter (9 November 1873 – 5 May 1940) was a Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. At the 1931 United Kingdom general election, 1931 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Eccles (UK Parliament constituency), Eccles, but stood down at the 1935 United Kingdom general election, 1935 election. Potter had previously stood, unsuccessfully, at the 1922 United Kingdom general election, 1922 general election in Batley and Morley (UK Parliament constituency), Batley and Morley. References * * External links * 1873 births 1940 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1931–1935 {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1870s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Bethel
Albert Bethel (Banbridge, 1 April 1874 – 29 July 1935, Fleetwood) was a cotton goods manufacturer and Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Eccles at the 1924 general election, but was defeated at the 1929 general election by the Labour Party candidate, David Mort. He did not stand for Parliament In modern politics, and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three functions: Representation (politics), representing the Election#Suffrage, electorate, making laws, and overseeing ... again. References * * External links * 1874 births 1935 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1924–1929 {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1870s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1963 Swansea East By-election
The 1963 Swansea East by-election was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Swansea East on 28 March 1963. The seat had become vacant when the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) David Mort had died on 1 January 1963, aged 74. He had held the seat since being elected unopposed at a by-election in 1940. The Labour candidate, Neil McBride, held the seat for his party. Result See also * Swansea East constituency * 1919 Swansea East by-election * 1940 Swansea East by-election * Swansea * List of United Kingdom by-elections * United Kingdom by-election records Parliamentary by-elections in the United Kingdom occur when a Member of Parliament (MP) vacates a House of Commons seat (due to resignation, death, disqualification or expulsion) during the course of a parliament. Scope of these records Altho ... References Further reading * * A Vision Of Britain Through Time(Constituency elector numbers) {{Westminster by- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Williams (Swansea Politician)
David Williams (8 September 1865 – 22 January 1941) was a Welsh Labour Party politician. The second son of David and Mary Williams, his father worked at the local Kilvey Copper Works. Williams received little education before entering service in 1877 as a pageboy for the Genfell family of Kilvey, Swansea, owners of the copper works. By the age of 16, he was working in the copper works, but was dismissed after leading a strike. He then became an apprentice boilermaker, while attending evening classes. In 1889, he married Elizabeth Colwill, and the couple had five children. Williams was involved in trade union activities and Labour politics from a young age. In 1898, he became the first Independent Labour Party councillor elected to Swansea Town Council, becoming an alderman in 1904 and was mayor of Swansea in 1912–1913. He received the freedom of Swansea in 1924. He was the first chairman of the Swansea Co-operative Society when it was formed in 1900. He unsucc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
