John Corlett (10 October 1884 – 18 January 1968) was a British Labour Party

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who sat in the House of Commons from 1945 to 1950 as the

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for

York York is a cathedral city with Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. It is the historic county town of Yorkshire. The city has many historic buildings and other structures, such as a ...

Life

Corlett was educated at the

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, where he received a PhD. He became a divisional organiser for the National Union of Teachers, and stood unsuccessfully for the Labour Party in

Stretford Stretford is a market town in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. It is situated on flat ground between the River Mersey and the Manchester Ship Canal, south of Manchester city centre, south of Salford and north-east of Altrincham. Str ...

at the

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. He became the MP for York during the 1945 election in which Labour won with a landslide, winning the seat for Labour for the first time in 14 years with a 4,072 vote majority. His successor as the York Constituency candidate, Haydn Davies would lose the seat in the 1950 election to the Conservatives.

The Standon Farm Inquiry

On 3 February 1947, the murder of a Master at the School at Standon Farm Approved School by several students was the subject to an inquiry. Chair John Cyril Maude and Corlett were selected to conduct this inquiry with PF Tipping as their Secretary. The original plan of the students had been to murder the Headteacher however, the plan had gone wrong resulting in the death of the Assistant Gardening Instructor, William Peter Fieldhouse. 5 boys were sentenced for the murder of Fieldhouse. The result of the Inquiry was the recommendation for the closure of the school and the firing of the headmaster.https://cathyfox.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/standon-farm-inquiry.pdf

Death

He died on 18 January 1968 at the age of 83.

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* 1968 deaths Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1945–1950 1884 births {{England-Labour-UK-MP-stub