St Albans By-election, 1904
The 1904 St Albans by-election was a parliamentary by-election held in England in February 1904 for the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons. It elected a new Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for the United Kingdom constituencies, constituency of St Albans (UK Parliament constituency), St Albans, a county division of Hertfordshire. It was the first contested parliamentary election in St Albans since 1892. The two-way contest was dominated by the contemporary debate between free trade and tariff reform, and fought with the assistance of the major national organisations on both sides of that divide. It also reflected the wider national divide between high church Conservatism and Nonconformist (Protestantism), nonconformist Liberalism. After a campaign marred by several incidents of unrest, the Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party candidate narrowly won the seat from the Conservative Party (UK), Conservatives, who had held the seat sin ...
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John Bamford Slack
Sir John Bamford Slack (11 July 1857 – 11 February 1909) was a British politician, member of the Liberal Party (United Kingdom), Liberal Party and Methodist lay preacher. Life Slack was born in Ripley, Derbyshire in 1857. His Classical liberalism, Liberal Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain), Wesleyan Methodist parents were Mary Ann (born Bamford) and Thomas Slack. His maternal grandfather made bricks and his younger sister was the temperance activist Agnes Elizabeth Slack. He was elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons for the constituency of St Albans (UK Parliament constituency), St Albans at the 1904 St Albans by-election, replacing Vicary Gibbs (St Albans MP), Vicary Gibbs. In 1905, he introduced a bill for women's suffrage, which was talked out. He received a knighthood. He married Alice Maud Mary Bretherton (died 1932), who after his death; became the first wife of Sir Banister Flight Fletcher. References External links

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