Sir John Bamford Slack (11 July 1857 – 11 February 1909) was a British politician, member of the

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and

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lay preacher.

Life

Slack was born in

Ripley, Derbyshire Ripley is a town in the Amber Valley borough of Derbyshire, England. History Little information remains as to when Ripley was founded, but it appears in the 1086 Domesday Book, when it was held by a man called Levenot. In 1251 Henry III grante ...

in 1857. His

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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

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for the constituency of

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at the 1904 St Albans by-election, replacing Vicary Gibbs. In 1905, he introduced a bill for

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, 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

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.National Portrait Gallery - Alice Maud Mary Bretherton
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* 1857 births 1909 deaths Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1900–1906 People from Ripley, Derbyshire Knights Bachelor {{England-Liberal-UK-MP-stub