Joseph Watson Sidebotham (29 April 1857 – 10 June 1925) was a British

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owner and

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politician.

Life

He was the eldest son of

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and Anne Coward of Bowdon,

Cheshire Cheshire ( ) is a ceremonial and historic county in North West England, bordered by Wales to the west, Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, and Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south. Cheshire's county t ...

. He was educated privately and at

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, before receiving a

Bachelor of Music Bachelor of Music (BM or BMus) is an academic degree awarded by a college, university, or conservatory upon completion of a program of study in music. In the United States, it is a professional degree, and the majority of work consists of prescr ...

degree from

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. He married Marian Dowling in 1886.''Biographies of Candidates'', 30 June 1886, p.5 His family company, Messrs J W Sidebotham and Brothers were the owners of a number of

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s. In January 1889 an explosion at the company's Hyde Colliery caused the death of twenty-three miners. He was elected as Conservative MP for the Hyde Division of Cheshire at the 1886 general election, and held the seat until 1900, when he announced his retirement for "private and personal" reasons. Sidebotham's interest in music led him to introduce a bill in the

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to regulate and register music teachers. Although the bill was unsuccessful, he was elected as a convocation member to the Senate of the

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, and worked to reform the university's system of accreditation of music degrees.

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, ''The University of London and the World of Learning, 1836-1986'', London, 1990

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sidebotham F W 1857 births 1925 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1886–1892 UK MPs 1892–1895 UK MPs 1895–1900 Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge