Henry Arthur Evans (24 September 1898 – 25 September 1958), known as Arthur Evans, was a UK politician.
He contested the
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 ...
as a
Progressive candidate for
Lewisham West but was unsuccessful.
He was
National Liberal Party Member of Parliament
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(MP) for
Leicester East
Leicester East is a United Kingdom constituencies, constituency represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, UK Parliament since December 2019 by Claudia Webbe, who was ele ...
from 1922 to 1923 and
Conservative
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MP for
Cardiff South from 1924 to 1929, and from 1931 to 1945. At the
1945 general election
The following elections occurred in the year 1945.
Africa
* 1945 South-West African legislative election
Asia
* 1945 Indian general election
Australia
* 1945 Fremantle by-election
Europe
* 1945 Albanian parliamentary election
* 1945 Bulgarian ...
he was defeated by the future Labour Prime Minister
James Callaghan.
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1898 births
1958 deaths
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Cardiff constituencies
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
UK MPs 1924–1929
UK MPs 1931–1935
UK MPs 1935–1945
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for Welsh constituencies
National Liberal Party (UK, 1922) politicians