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Pudsey And Otley (UK Parliament Constituency)
Pudsey and Otley was a United Kingdom constituencies, parliamentary constituency centred on the towns of Pudsey and Otley in West Yorkshire. It returned one Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system. History The constituency was created for the 1918 United Kingdom general election, 1918 general election, partially replacing the previous Pudsey (UK Parliament constituency), Pudsey and Otley (UK Parliament constituency), Otley constituencies. It was abolished for the 1950 United Kingdom general election, 1950 general election, when it was largely replaced by a new Pudsey (UK Parliament constituency), Pudsey constituency while Otley became part of Ripon (UK Parliament constituency), Ripon. Boundaries The Municipal Borough of Pudsey, the Urban Districts of Burley-in-Wharfedale, Calverley, Farsley, Horsforth, I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barkston Ash (UK Parliament Constituency)
Barkston Ash was a parliamentary constituency centred on the village of Barkston Ash in the West Riding of Yorkshire (now part of West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire). It was represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until 1983. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. History The constituency was created under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and in the main returned Conservative MPs at every general election until its abolition. However, it was briefly represented by the Liberal Joseph Andrews, who won the seat at a by-election in October 1905 after the death of its first MP, Sir Robert Gunter. The Conservatives regained the seat at the 1906 general election. At the 1983 general election, Barkston Ash was replaced by the Selby constituency. As of the 2010 general election, the modern equivalent of Barkston Ash is Selby and Ainsty. Boundaries The Redistribution of Seats Act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Fawkes
Major Frederick Hawksworth Fawkes (1870 – 1 February 1936) was a British Conservative Party politician. Fawkes was the son of the Rev. Frederick Fawkes of Farnley Hall, North Yorkshire. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he was admitted in 1890, and farmed at Kirby Overblow. He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Pudsey and Otley division of the West Riding of Yorkshire at the 1922 general election, but retired from the House of Commons at the 1923 general election. He served as High Sheriff of Yorkshire The Sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown. Formerly the Sheriff was the principal law enforcement officer in the county but over the centuries most of the responsibilities associated with the post have been transferred elsewhere o ... for 1932–33. References External links * 1870 births 1936 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1922–1923 People educated a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Hubert Houldsworth, 1st Baronet
Sir Hubert Stanley Houldsworth, 1st Baronet, Queen's Counsel, QC (20 April 1889 – 1 February 1956) was a barrister, Chairman of the National Coal Board and a British Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party politician. Background Houldsworth was the son of Albert Edward Houldsworth and Susannah Buckley. He was educated at Heckmondwike Grammar School and the University of Leeds, where in 1911 he received a Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours in Physics and in 1912 a Master of Science. In 1925 he was awarded a Doctor of Science. In 1919 he married Hilda Frances Clegg of Cleckheaton, Yorkshire. They had one son, Sir Basil Houldsworth, 2nd Baronet, Harold Basil. In 1944 he received a Knighthood. In 1951 he received an honorary LLD from Leeds University. In 1956 he was awarded a Baronetcy in the 1956 New Year Honours. Professional career Houldsworth was Assistant Lecturer in the University of Leeds from 1919 to 1926. In 1926 he received a Call to Bar by Lincoln's Inn. He was Indepe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Woodhead
Ernest Woodhead (2 February 1857 – 10 June 1944) was an English rugby union footballer who played in the 1880s. He played at representative level for England, and at club level for Huddersfield, as a forward, e.g. front row, lock, or back row. Prior to Tuesday 27 August 1895, Huddersfield was a rugby union club. Background Ernie Woodhead was born in Huddersfield, West Riding of Yorkshire, he was the son of Joseph Woodhead, Liberal Party Member of parliament for Spen Valley, he died aged 87 in Huddersfield, West Riding of Yorkshire. Playing career Ernie Woodhead won a cap for England while at Huddersfield in 1880 against Ireland. Political career He was active for the Liberal Party in Huddesfield local politics for many years, being a member of Huddesfield Borough Council, including serving as Mayor of Huddesfield. For the 1918 General Election he stood as Liberal Party candidate for Huddersfield Huddersfield is a market town in the Kirklees district in West Yorkshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1924 United Kingdom General Election
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Tudor Walters
Sir John Tudor Walters PC (25 February 1866 – 16 July 1933) was a Welsh architect, surveyor and Liberal Party politician. He served as Paymaster-General under David Lloyd George from 1919 to 1922 and once again briefly in 1931 under Ramsay MacDonald. Political career Walters was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Brightside at the 1906 general election and was knighted in 1912. He served as Paymaster-General in the Government of David Lloyd George from 1919 to 1922 and was sworn of the Privy Council in 1919. He lost his seat at Sheffield at the 1922 general election. He tried unsuccessfully to get back into the House of Commons in 1923 at Pudsey and Otley in the West Riding of Yorkshire. He again stood for election to Parliament at the 1929 general election as Liberal candidate for the Cornish seat of Penryn and Falmouth. The seat was a marginal which had been won by the Liberals in 1923, but gained by the Conservatives in 1924, although the inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tudor Walters
Sir John Tudor Walters PC (25 February 1866 – 16 July 1933) was a Welsh architect, surveyor and Liberal Party politician. He served as Paymaster-General under David Lloyd George from 1919 to 1922 and once again briefly in 1931 under Ramsay MacDonald. Political career Walters was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Brightside at the 1906 general election and was knighted in 1912. He served as Paymaster-General in the Government of David Lloyd George from 1919 to 1922 and was sworn of the Privy Council in 1919. He lost his seat at Sheffield at the 1922 general election. He tried unsuccessfully to get back into the House of Commons in 1923 at Pudsey and Otley in the West Riding of Yorkshire. He again stood for election to Parliament at the 1929 general election as Liberal candidate for the Cornish seat of Penryn and Falmouth. The seat was a marginal which had been won by the Liberals in 1923, but gained by the Conservatives in 1924, although the inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percy Myers
Percival Myers (1887 – 5 January 1967) was a British political activist. Born in Otley, Myers became a printers' engineer, and joined the Amalgamated Society of Engineers in 1908. He also became active in the Labour Party, for which he stood in Pudsey and Otley at the 1922, 1923 and 1924 UK general election Nineteen or 19 may refer to: * 19 (number), the natural number following 18 and preceding 20 * one of the years 19 BC, AD 19, 1919, 2019 Films * ''19'' (film), a 2001 Japanese film * ''Nineteen'' (film), a 1987 science fiction film Musi ...s. His best performance was in 1924, when he came second, with 25.3% of the vote. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Myers, Percy 1887 births 1967 deaths English trade unionists Labour Party (UK) parliamentary candidates People from Otley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm Stoddart-Scott
Colonel Sir Malcolm Stoddart-Scott OBE MC TD (23 September 1901 Pontefract– 15 June 1973) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He attended Elmfield College and was then a master there. He qualified as a doctor from the University of Leeds and was commissioned Lieutenant in the Territorial Army Royal Army Medical Corps in 1927,''London Gazette'' Issue 33299 published on 2 August 1927. Page 22 eventually reaching the rank of colonel. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Pudsey and Otley from 1945 to 1950, and after that constituency was abolished in boundary changes for the 1950 general election, he was MP for Ripon from 1950 until his death in 1973. He served as chairman, British group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, 1951–59 and as a member of the Church Assembly. Farmer and director of family wool business, B Parkinson & Co. The by-election following his death was won by the Liberal Party The Liberal Party is any of many political parties a ... [...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] |
Granville Gibson
Sir Charles Granville Gibson (8 November 1880 – 17 July 1948) was a British Conservative Party politician. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for the Pudsey and Otley division of the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1929 to 1945. Gibson first stood for Parliament in the 1923 general election, when he was the Liberal Party candidate in Leeds South, winning only 27% of the votes. He did not stand again until the 1929 general election, when he was the Conservative candidate in the safe seat of Pudsey and Otley. He won the seat, and held it until he retired from the House of Commons at the 1945 general election. He was knighted in King George VI George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952. He was also the last Emperor of Ind ...'s 1937 Coronation Honours, for political and public services. References Extern ... [...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] |
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