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Stepney (London County Council Constituency)
Stepney 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 1889 and 1919, and again from 1949 until the council's abolition, in 1965. The seat shared boundaries with the UK Parliament constituency of the same name. Councillors Election results 1889–1919 1949–1965 References {{London County Council London County Council constituencies Politics of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Stepney ... [...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] |
John Sankey, 1st Viscount Sankey
John Sankey, 1st Viscount Sankey, (26 October 1866 – 6 February 1948) was a British lawyer, judge, Labour politician and Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, famous for many of his judgments in the House of Lords. He gave his name to the Sankey Declaration of the Rights of Man (1940). Background and education He was the son of Thomas Sankey, a grocer of Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, by his second wife Catalina (née Dewsbury). Sankey's father died when he was 8 years old, when the family moved to Castle Road (now City Road) in Roath, Cardiff. Sankey was educated at a local Anglican school, and with the financial support of an Anglican clergyman he attended Lancing College, a public school in Sussex. He studied at Jesus College, Oxford, graduating with a second-class BA in Modern History in 1889, and a third-class Bachelor of Civil Law degree in 1891. He was called to the Bar at Middle Temple in 1892. Political and legal career Sankey began his practice as a barri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alf Watts
Alfred Augustus Watts (1862–1928), also known as A. A. Watts, was a British communist. Born in Bow, London, Watts became a compositor and joined the Social Democratic Federation (SDF). In 1904, he became a member of the Board of Guardians in Poplar, a post he held until his death. After the SDF became the British Socialist Party, Watts became a leader of the majority anti-war faction, and was elected to the party executive as Treasurer, alongside Albert Inkpin and John Maclean. He was a supporter of the October Revolution and of the formation of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). In 1919, Watts was elected as a Labour Party member of 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 ... in Battersea North, and in 1922 he was re-elected for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph George Butler
Joseph George Butler (born 1869) was a British politician and trade unionist, who served on London County Council (LCC). Early life Born in Peckham, Butler began working when he was seven years old. For many years, he worked in a factory making clothing for the British Army, and in 1895 he founded the Army Clothing Employees' Union, serving as its secretary. During the 1910s, he was also secretary of the United Government Workers' Federation. Political career Butler joined the Social Democratic Federation (SDF), and unsuccessfully contested Kennington for the party in the 1907 London County Council election. The SDF became the core of the British Socialist Party (BSP), and under this description, Butler stood in the 1913 London County Council election in Stepney, but took only 108 votes. Later in the year, he contested the 1913 Reading by-election. He received the support of the Independent Labour Party and the local trades council, but was only able to take 10.4% of the v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Hardy (Liberal Politician)
George Alexander Hardy (29 December 1851 – 2 October 1920) was an English businessman and Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party politician who served for many years as a councillor in South London, and briefly as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Stowmarket (UK Parliament constituency), Stowmarket division of Suffolk. Hardy was born in the Islington district of North London, and went into business in the City of London. He was a member of the Greenwich Vestry, and later served as a councillor on Camberwell Borough Council. In the March 1901 elections for the London County Council, Hardy was elected as a Progressive Party (London), Progressive Party councillor for the Dulwich (UK Parliament constituency), Dulwich division of Camberwell. He was re-elected in 1904, but at the 1907 elections, the Municipal Reform Party made sweeping gains and Hardy lost his seat on the council. He was elected at the 1906 United Kingdom general election, 1906 general election as the Member of Parliam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Glyn-Jones
Sir William Samuel Glyn-Jones (1869 – 9 September 1927) was a British Liberal Party politician and pharmacist. Background He was born to Welsh parents in Worcester in 1869, the son of George Griffith Jones. He was educated at Merthyr Tydfil Grammar School. He married in 1894, Mary Evans of Tower Hill, Llanybydder, Carmarthen. They had two sons and two daughters. His eldest son, Hildreth Glyn-Jones, became an eminent barrister and High Court judge. His younger son, John, was an actor. Career He was Called to Bar, Middle Temple in 1904. He was appointed an Alderman to Middlesex County Council. Standing for the first time, he fought the January 1910 General Election as Liberal candidate for Stepney, coming second. He served as Liberal Member of Parliament for Stepney from December 1910–18. He gained the seat from the Conservatives at the December 1910 General Election. When his constituency was abolished in 1918 he decided to retire from parliament. He was knighted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Evans-Gordon
Major Sir William Eden Evans Gordon (8 August 1857 – 31 October 1913)''The Times'', 3 November 1913 p. 11''d'' was a British MP who had served as a military diplomat in India. As a political officer on secondment from the British Indian Army from 1876 to 1897 during the British Raj, he was attached to the Foreign Department of the Indian Government. His career in India was a mixture of military administrative business on the volatile North-West Frontier, and of diplomacy and foreign policy in advising Maharajas or accompanying the Viceroy in the Princely States. After leaving the army, Evans Gordon returned to Britain and in 1900 was elected as Conservative Party MP for Stepney on an "anti-alien platform". As a result of the pogroms in Eastern Europe, Jews were arriving in increasing numbers in Britain to stay or ''en route'' for America. Evans Gordon, as a "restrictionist", was heavily and actively involved in the passing of the Aliens Act 1905, which sought to limit t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1898 London County Council Election
An election to the County Council of London took place on 3 March 1898. The council was elected by First Past the Post with each elector having two votes in the two-member seats. The Progressive Party won a substantial majority on the council. Campaign The Progressives contended that, because the last election had resulted in a tie in the number of councillors, the council had made little progress over the past three years. They argued that they had successfully led slum clearance programmes. They proposed that the council should maintain its existing policy of refusing to sell alcohol in premises it owned, should seek to levy increased taxes on landlords, and should aim to municipalise the gas and water supplies. The Moderates argued that the Progressives were fighting on party political lines, and that as a result, they would too. They contended that the Progressives wanted to adopted socialist policies, and that they had wasted money by overspending on building projects. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1961 London County Council Election
An election to the County Council of London took place on 13 April 1961. It proved to be the last election to the council, and plans for its replacement by the Greater London Council were already in process. The council was elected by First Past the Post with each elector having three votes in the three-member seats. Campaign The campaign attracted little attention. The Conservative Party campaign focused on housing issues. The London Labour Party organised a tour of twenty cars through South East London, carrying politicians who made short speeches at numerous locations in the area. Other election issues included the proposed construction of the Royal National Theatre, and the London Ringways road schemes. Results The Labour Party lost seventeen seats to the Conservative Party, but still secured a substantial majority of seats on the council. This ensured that the Labour Party would complete thirty years in control of the council. The Liberal Party was hopeful of winning a ... [...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] |
1958 London County Council Election
An election to the County Council of London took place on 16 April 1958. The council was elected by First Past the Post with each elector having three votes in the three-member seats. The Labour Party, who had already run the council for 24 years, won their largest ever majority. Campaign The Labour Party were optimistic about making gains, and targeted seats in Battersea South, Clapham, Lewisham West, Wandsworth Central and Woolwich West. The Conservatives targeted the marginal Labour-held constituencies of Barons Court, Kensington North and Paddington North. Their manifesto argued that the Labour Party were wasting money; they proposed reducing rates, and encouraged Londoners to move to new towns. The Liberal Party stood 31 candidates, but reports suggested that they were hampered by poor organisation, and were not optimistic of taking a seat. The Communist Party of Great Britain and the Independent Labour Party each stood four candidates, while the Socialist Party ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Oldfield
John Richard Anthony Oldfield (5 July 189911 December 1999) was a British landowner and politician. The son of Major H.E. Oldfield of the Royal Field Artillery, his father was killed in action two days before his first birthday during the Second Anglo-Boer War. With his widowed mother, he moved home many times, spending much time at Doddington Place Gardens, Kent, which had been purchased by his grandfather and aunt in 1906. Educated at Eton College, Oldfield was commissioned as an officer in the Grenadier Guards in the latter stages of the First World War. In 1920, he entered Trinity College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge, he converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism. He also took an interest in social matters, and began voluntary work at Toynbee Hall in the East End of London and joined the Labour Party in the early 1920s. At the 1929 general election he was elected as Member of Parliament for South East Essex. With the formation of the Second Labour Government he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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