Joshua Ritson
CBE (16 June 1874 in
Farlam – 5 February 1955 in Sunderland) was a British
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politician who served as
Member of Parliament (MP) for the
City of Durham. He was elected in 1922, unseated in 1931, and re-elected in 1935 and remained in
Parliament until 1945.
["Mr. Joshua Ritson", ''The Times'', London, Monday, 7 Feb 1955; page 10, Issue 53159.] He is known for his representation of the Durham miners. He became mayor of
Sunderland
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in 1945, and was appointed the C.B.E.
Order of the British Empire in 1949.
[''Who was who: a companion to Who's who, containing the biographies of those who died, Volume 5'', Publisher A. & C. Black, 1961.]
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In 1951 he was made Roll of Honorary Freeman of the former Borough of Sunderland.
Quotes
:"The day has passed when we had to take off our hats to the squire and bow to the bishop"
Personal
Born in 1874, he was the son of Joshua Ritson from
Bampton, Cumberland
and his wife Ann. His older brother John Ritson was President of the Northern Colliery Officials Association. In 1900, he married Elizabeth, the daughter of Irvin Dinning.
His great-niece is Labour Party politician
Baroness Joyce Quin (b. 1944), the daughter of Basil Godfrey Quin and Ida Ritson (b. 1907) the daughter of Joshua's older brother, David Ritson.
[''The Times'', 21 September 2010]
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See also
*List of MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election of:
1922
Events
January
* January 7 – Dáil Éireann (Irish Republic), Dáil Éireann, the parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64–57 votes.
* January 10 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éirean ...
,
1923
Events
January–February
* January 9 – Lithuania begins the Klaipėda Revolt to annex the Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory).
* January 11 – Despite strong British protests, troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area, t ...
,
1924
Events
January
* January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after.
* January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China hol ...
,
1929
This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic ...
and
1935
Events
January
* January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude Franco-Italian Agreement of 1935, an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims.
* ...
References
External links
Joshua Ritson, age 6 1881 Censor Record, Durham Mining Museum
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1874 births
1955 deaths
Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Miners' Federation of Great Britain-sponsored MPs
UK MPs 1922–1923
UK MPs 1923–1924
UK MPs 1924–1929
UK MPs 1929–1931
UK MPs 1935–1945
Politicians from Carlisle, Cumbria
Mayors of places in North East England
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for City of Durham