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Hammersmith South (UK Parliament Constituency)
Hammersmith South was a borough constituency in the Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith in west London. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post In a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting, voters cast their ... system. The constituency was created when the Hammersmith constituency was divided for the 1918 general election. It was abolished for the 1955 general election. Boundaries 1918–1950: The Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith wards numbers one, two and three. 1950–1955: The Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith wards of Addison, Broadway, Brook Green, Grove, Olympia, Ravenscourt, and St Stephen's. Members of Parliament Election results Elections in the 1910s E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hammersmith (UK Parliament Constituency)
Hammersmith is a List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies, parliamentary constituency in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, UK Parliament. It is currently represented by Andy Slaughter, a member of the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party, who has represented the seat since its recreation in 2010 United Kingdom general election, 2010. For the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer, it is considered a borough constituency, and as with all constituencies, elects one Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament using the First-past-the-post voting, first-past-the-post system. Boundaries 1885–1918 1885–1918: The parishes of St Peter and St Paul, Hammersmith. The parliamentary borough of Hammersmith was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 and consisted of the civil parishes in England, civil parish of Hammersmith (in Middlesex only until 1889 when it fell w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1929 United Kingdom General Election
The 1929 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 30 May 1929 and resulted in a hung parliament. It stands as the fourth of six instances under the secret ballot, and the first of three under universal suffrage, in which a party has lost on the popular vote but won the highest number (known as "a plurality") of seats versus all other parties (the others are 1874, January 1910, December 1910, 1951 and February 1974). In 1929, Ramsay MacDonald's Labour Party won the most seats in the House of Commons for the first time. The Liberal Party led again by former Prime Minister David Lloyd George regained some ground lost in the 1924 general election and held the balance of power. Parliament was dissolved on 10 May. The election was often referred to as the "Flapper Election", because it was the first in which women aged 21–29 had the right to vote (owing to the Representation of the People Act 1928). (Women over 30 had been able to vote since the 1918 general ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1923 United Kingdom General Election
The 1923 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 6 December 1923. The Conservative Party (UK), Conservatives, led by Stanley Baldwin, won the most seats, but Labour Party (UK), Labour, led by Ramsay MacDonald, and H. H. Asquith's reunited Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party gained enough seats to produce a hung parliament. It is the most recent UK general election in which a third party (here, the Liberals) won over 100 seats. The Liberals' percentage of the vote, 29.7%, has not been exceeded by a third party at any general election since. MacDonald formed the First MacDonald ministry, first ever Labour government with tacit support from the Liberals. Rather than trying to bring the Liberals back into government, Asquith's motivation for permitting Labour to enter power was that he hoped they would prove to be incompetent and quickly lose support. Being a minority, MacDonald's government only lasted ten months and another general election was held in 1924 United Kingdo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wyndham Albery
Wyndham James Albery (1882 – 28 August 1940) was a British politician and accountant. Born in London, Albery was the third and youngest son of the actress and theatrical manager Mary Moore (later Lady Wyndham) and playwright James Albery. His eldest brother Irving went into politics and became a Conservative MP and his middle brother, Bronson, became a theatre manager. He attended Uppingham School and became an accountant. He published some poems in 1906. He joined the Independent Labour Party (ILP), and from 1913 to 1919 served as secretary of its West London Federation, then as the federation's chair. Albery was a conscientious objector during World War I, and was imprisoned in 1917, but soon released. Through the ILP, he became active in the Labour Party, serving on Marylebone Council from 1919. At the 1922 and 1923 UK general elections, he stood unsuccessfully in Hammersmith South. In 1923, he became treasurer of the London Divisional Council of the ILP, and fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1922 United Kingdom General Election
The 1922 United Kingdom general election was held on Wednesday 15 November 1922. It was won by the Conservative Party, led by Bonar Law, which gained an overall majority over the Labour Party, led by J. R. Clynes, and a divided Liberal Party. This election is considered one of political realignment, with the Liberal Party falling to third-party status. The Conservative Party went on to spend all but eight of the next forty-two years as the largest party in Parliament, and Labour emerged as the main competition to the Conservatives. The election was the first not to be held in Southern Ireland, due to the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty on 6 December 1921, under which Southern Ireland was to secede from the United Kingdom as a Dominion – the Irish Free State – on 6 December 1922. This reduced the size of the House of Commons by nearly one hundred seats, when compared to the previous election. Background The Liberal Party had divided into two factions following the ous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir W
''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as part of "Monsieur", with the equivalent "My Lord" in English. Traditionally, as governed by law and custom, Sir is used for men titled as knights, often as members of orders of chivalry, as well as later applied to baronets and other offices. As the female equivalent for knighthood is damehood, the female equivalent term is typically Dame. The wife of a knight or baronet tends to be addressed as Lady, although a few exceptions and interchanges of these uses exist. Additionally, since the late modern period, Sir has been used as a respectful way to address a man of superior social status or military rank. Equivalent terms of address for women are Madam (shortened to Ma'am), in addition to social honorifics such as Mrs, Ms or Miss. Etymol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Atholl Robertson
Thomas Atholl Robertson (27 October 1874 – 14 December 1955) was a Scottish fine arts printer and publisher and Liberal politician. Family and education Thomas Atholl Robertson was the eldest son of John Robertson of Snaigow, Dunkeld in rural Perthshire. He was educated locally, at Clunie School, Blairgowrie. He married twice; first in 1906 to Flora Campbell, eldest daughter of James Cummings, a dental surgeon. There were two sons and four daughters from the marriage. Flora Robertson died in 1943 and five years later Robertson married Agnes Christie, the daughter of James Paterson of Redgorton in Perthshire. In religion Robertson was a staunch Presbyterian and was an office bearer of the Presbyterian Church in Palmers Green near his London home. One of his relatives, Dr James Robertson of Whittinghame, East Lothian was Moderator of the Church of Scotland in 1909. Although he lived in London for much of his life, Robertson also had a home in Scotland, Dunvorlich, Ewanfield, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Williams (Warrington MP)
Sir William Thomas Williams, Queen's Counsel, QC (22 September 1915 – 28 February 1986) was a British Labour Co-operative politician. Williams was educated at Cardiff University, University College, Cardiff and St Catherine's College, Oxford. He was President of the South Wales University Students' Union in 1939. He was a Baptist minister and a chaplain with the Royal Air Force for returned prisoner of war, prisoners of war. He became a barrister, called to the bar by Lincoln's Inn, and a Queen's Counsel, and was bursar and a tutor at Manchester College, Oxford. Williams was Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Hammersmith South (UK Parliament constituency), Hammersmith South from a 1949 Hammersmith South by-election, 1949 by-election to 1955, Barons Court (UK Parliament constituency), Baron's Court from 1955 to 1959, and Warrington (UK Parliament constituency), Warrington from 1961 Warrington by-election, a 1961 by-election. Williams served as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1949 Hammersmith South By-election
A by-election for the constituency of Hammersmith South in the United Kingdom House of Commons was held on 24 February 1949, caused by the death of the incumbent Labour MP William Thomas Adams. The result was a hold for the Labour Party, with their candidate Thomas Williams. Result Previous election References * Craig, F. W. S. (1983) 969 British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3rd edition ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. . * External linksGovt. Holds Another Seat Pathé Pathé or Pathé Frères (, styled as PATHÉ!) is the name of various French people, French businesses that were founded and originally run by the Pathé Brothers of France starting in 1896. In the early 1900s, Pathé became the world's largest ... Coverage of the By-election {{By-elections to the 38th UK Parliament Hammersmith South,1949 Hammersmith South by-election Hammersmith South by-election Hammersmith South,1949 Hammersmith South by-election Hamm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Thomas Adams
William Thomas Adams (10 September 1884 – 9 January 1949) was a British Labour Co-operative politician in London who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the last four years of his life. Adams was the son of John Adams, from Oxted in Surrey. He was educated at a London Board School and became a clerk, and was married in 1908 to Florence Nightingale. He was elected as a member of Hammersmith Metropolitan Borough Council in 1934, became an alderman in 1938, and was Leader of the Council from 1944 to 1945. He was elected at the 1945 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hammersmith South, having contested the seat unsuccessfully in 1935. During his time in the Commons, he never made a Maiden Speech A maiden speech is the first speech given by a newly elected or appointed member of a legislature or parliament. Traditions surrounding maiden speeches vary from country to country. In many Westminster system governments, there is a convention th .... He died ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1945 United Kingdom General Election
The 1945 United Kingdom general election was a national election held on 5 July 1945, but polling in some constituencies was delayed by some days, and the counting of votes was delayed until 26 July to provide time for overseas votes to be brought to Britain. The governing Conservative Party sought to maintain its position in Parliament but faced challenges from public opinion about the future of the United Kingdom in the post-war period. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill proposed to call for a general election in Parliament, which passed with a majority vote less than two months after the conclusion of the Second World War in Europe. The election's campaigning was focused on leadership of the country and its postwar future. Churchill sought to use his wartime popularity as part of his campaign to keep the Conservatives in power after a wartime coalition had been in place since 1940 with the other political parties, but he faced questions from public opinion surrounding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Douglas Cooke
Sir James Douglas Cooke, FRCS (1879 – 13 July 1949) was a Conservative politician from England. He served as the British Conservative politician for Hammersmith South In 1931, he became a member of Parliament, where he remained until 1945."Sir Douglas Cooke", ''The Times'', (London), Thursday, 14 July 1949, page 7, Issue 51433 He was knighted in the King's Birthday Honours list in 1945. Personal background James Douglas Cooke was born in 1879 in Melbourne, Australia, the eldest son of John Cooke, a pastoralist who had lived in New Zealand.Brown, G. H.; and Munk, William. (1930) 171 Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of London, 1826-1925', Publisher: The College, pp 637 In 1907, Cooke married Elsie Muriel. Together, they had one son and three daughters. Elsie was the daughter of General James Burston and the sister of Major General Samuel Burston of Melbourne. Cooke lived in London until his death in 1949. Professional background Cooke was ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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