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St Pancras South West (London County Council Constituency)
St Pancras South West 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 1949. 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 Camden St Pancras, London ... [...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] |
Albert Samuels
Albert Edward Samuels (12 May 1900 – 19 June 1982) was a British politician, who held leading roles on the London County Council (LCC) and Greater London Council (GLC). Samuels was educated at Sir Walter St John's School and King's College London, qualifying as a solicitor in 1921. He joined the Labour Party, and in 1922 won election to Battersea Metropolitan Borough Council, then from 1925 served on the council as an alderman. Samuels contested Battersea South unsuccessfully at the 1925 London County Council election. He was instead appointed to the Metropolitan Water Board, and at the 1928 London County Council election, he won a seat in St Pancras South East. He lost his seat in 1931, but gained a seat in St Pancras South West in 1934, and was immediately appointed as chair of the Public Control Committee. Samuels stood down from the county council in 1937, but remained politically active. From 1941, he again served on the Metropolitan Water Board, then at the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London County Council Constituencies
London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for two millennia. The City of London, its ancient core and financial centre, was founded by the Roman Empire, Romans as ''Londinium'' and retains its medieval boundaries.See also: Independent city#National capitals, Independent city § National capitals The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has for centuries hosted the national Government of the United Kingdom, government and Parliament of the United Kingdom, parliament. Since the 19th century, the name "London" has also referred to the metropolis around this core, historically split between the Counties of England, counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent, and Hertfordshire, which largely comprises Greater London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Bentwich
Helen Caroline Bentwich ( Franklin; 6 January 1892 – 26 April 1972) was a British philanthropist and politician. Biography Helen Franklin (later Bentwich) was born in Notting Hill, London, into a prominent Jewish family. Her father, Arthur Ellis Franklin, was a merchant banker and her uncles Herbert and Stuart Samuel were leading politicians. Her siblings included Hugh Franklin, a suffragist, and Ellis Arthur Franklin, another banker and eventual vice-principal of the Working Men's College. She attended St Paul's Girls' School and Bedford College. Her niece, Rosalind Franklin, established in 1952 that DNA consisted of a double helix. Philanthropy Bentwich served a forewoman at the Woolwich Arsenal in 1916. She fought for the rights of women workers and tried to form a trade union. Forced to resign, she became an organiser for the Women's Land Army. Bentwich and her husband moved to Palestine in 1919, where he was appointed attorney-general under the British Mandate. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Inkpin
Albert Samuel Inkpin, (also written Inkpen) (16 June 1884 – 29 March 1944) was a British communist and the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). He served several terms in prison for political offences. In 1929 he was replaced as head of the CPGB and made head of the party's Friends of Soviet Russia organisation, a position he retained until his death. Biography Early years Albert Inkpin was born on 16 June 1884 in Haggerston, an area of London. He was employed as a clerk and joined the National Union of Clerks, becoming its assistant secretary in 1907. In 1904, he joined the Marxist Social Democratic Federation (SDF), and became one of its Assistant Secretaries in 1907. He followed the SDF into the new British Socialist Party (BSP) in 1911, continuing in an Assistant Secretary capacity in that new organization.Richard Temple, "Inkpin, Albert Samuel", ''Dictionary of Labour Biography'', vol.XIV, pp.180–188 In 1913 Inkpin was el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1922 London County Council Election
An election to the County Council of London took place on 2 March 1922. It was the eleventh triennial election of the whole council. There were sixty dual member constituencies and one four member constituency, making a total of 124 seats. The council was elected by First Past the Post with each elector having two votes in the dual member seats. National government background The Prime Minister of the day was the Liberal David Lloyd George who led a Coalition Government that included the Unionist Party and those Liberals and Socialists who had broken from the main Liberal and Labour parties who sat in opposition. The Coalition was numerically dominated by the Unionists who were still 7 months away from overthrowing Lloyd George. The Coalition had been losing parliamentary seats in by-elections to both opposition parties including two in London to Labour; at 1921 Southwark South East by-election and during the council election campaign at 1922 Camberwell North by-election where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marks Ripka
Marks Donald Ripka (12 June 1903 – 4 March 1976) was a Polish-British medical doctor and politician. Born part of Poland then under the control of the Russian Empire to a Jewish family as Majer Rybka, he moved with his family to the Spitalfields area of London at an early age. In 1931, he was naturalised as a British citizen, by which time he was using the name "Marks Ripka". Ripka studied medicine, qualifying in 1933, and became known for his willingness to prescribe heroin to addicts. Initially, this attracted attention, but did not cause him difficulties, and he became active in the Socialist Medical Association and the Medical Services Guild. He also joined the Labour Party, and at the 1946 London County Council election, he was elected in St Pancras South West, serving a single three-year term. By 1951, concerns about Ripka's prescription of heroin were taken to the Home Office. While it decided that the prescription of heroin to addicts was a complex area, of unc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evelyn Denington, Baroness Denington
Evelyn Joyce Denington, Baroness Denington DBE (née Bursill; 9 August 1907 – 22 August 1998) was a British politician. She served as chair of the Stevenage Development Corporation from 1966–80 and chair of the Greater London Council from 1975–77. Early life and career Denington was born Evelyn Joyce Bursill on 9 August 1907 to Philip Charles Bursill and Edith Rowena Montford. She was educated at Blackheath High School, Bedford College and Birkbeck College, where she attended evening classes. In 1927, she became an editorial assistant at ''Architecture and Building News'', leaving in 1931 to retrain as a teacher. Denington became secretary to the National Association of Labour Teachers (1938–47), and taught in London junior schools until 1950. Marriage She married Cecil Dallas Denington, a stockbroker's clerk but later a schoolteacher, in 1935. Politics She, and her husband, were elected to St Pancras Borough Council in 1945, serving until 1959. She was also electe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1946 London County Council Election
An election to the County Council of London took place on 7 March 1946. The council was elected by First Past the Post with each elector having two votes in the two-member seats. The Labour Party once more made gains, again increasing their majority over the Conservative Party. Campaign Due to World War II, no election had been held to the council since 1937. The Labour Party stood candidates in all constituencies except the City of London, and Westminster St George's. Its manifesto proposed a major programme of house building, new schools, and the adoption of the ''County of London Plan''. The Conservative Party proposed appointing a housing director with responsibility for the construction of new houses, and opposed building large secondary schools, instead arguing for smaller technical schools. Results The Labour Party won its largest ever majority, gaining eighteen seats from the Conservative Party. The ''Manchester Guardian'' argued that the Conservatives would be s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Orbach
Maurice Orbach (13 July 190224 April 1979) was a British Labour Party politician, who served the Willesden East (1945-1959) and Stockport South (1964-1979) constituencies. Background Born to a Jewish family, Orbach was educated at technical college in Wales and as an extramural student at New York University. Career Public service Orbach was a lifelong member of Poale Zion (Great Britain). He was general secretary Secretary is a title often used in organizations to indicate a person having a certain amount of authority, power, or importance in the organization. Secretaries announce important events and communicate to the organization. The term is derived ... of the Jewish Trades Advisory Council ("a committee of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, aimed at countering anti-Semitism in business life" during World War II) from 1940 and remained its secretary until his death. He was chairman of Central Middlesex Group hospital management committee. He was active in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Felton
Monica Felton (1906 – March 1970) was a British writer, town planner, feminist and social activist, a member of the Labour Party. Early life Monica Glory Page (later Felton) was born in 1906, the eldest of four siblings, Una Hilary (b. 1908) who became a teacher and worked in Africa in the 1930s, Basil (b. 1910) and Gwythian Lloyd (1914-2006) who became a consulting engineer. She was brought up in a staunch Primitive Methodists household. Her mother Una Page (née Bone) (1879-1926) wrote temperance hymns, and her father Rev. Thomas Lloyd Page was a Primitive Methodist minister. She attended Wycombe High School then studied at the University of Southampton and was later awarded a PhD at the London School of Economics; she was later appointed to its board of governors. Felton had been living in Majorca when the Spanish Civil War started and, on her return to the UK, gave talks about what she saw in Spain at that time. In 1937 Felton was elected to the London County Council ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1937 London County Council Election
An election to the County Council of London took place on 4 March 1937. The council was elected by First Past the Post with each elector having two votes in the two-member seats. The Labour Party made gains, increasing their majority over the Municipal Reform Party. Campaign The Labour Party had gained control of the council for the first time in 1934. It campaigned on its record of three years running the council, and also called for a Metropolitan Green Belt, the completion of slum clearance, a scheme to beautify the South Bank, and the provision of more school playing fields. The party ran candidates for every seat other than the four in the City of London. The Conservatives, running as the Municipal Reform Party, hoped to regain control of council, believing that their defeat in 1934 was due to complacency and a low turnout. Its manifesto noted that Labour had failed to meet its 1934 promise of increased house building, and proposed rebuilding schools, providing cheap m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
