Louis John Tillett (13 June 1865 in

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– 24 November 1929 in

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politician. He was elected as a

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(MP) for

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at the 1904

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on 15 January 1904. He was re-elected in

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and held the seat until he stood down from the

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at the 1910 general election in January of that year.

Personal life

Tillett's grandfather was Liberal politician

Jacob Henry Tillett Jacob Henry Tillett (1 November 1818 – 30 January 1892 ) was an English Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1870 and 1885. Tillet was born in Norwich, the son of Jacob Tillett and his wife Elizabeth Towle ...

, MP for Norwich and Mayor of Norwich (1875-1876). He married the daughter of Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery curator James Reeve, Ellen May in 1896; she died in 1905. Before his election to parliament, Tillett worked as a solicitor in Norwich. After retirement from political life, Tillett was still involved with the local community and it was during the great floods of 1912, in Norwich, that he was attributed to helping a pregnant lady, risking his own life to get her to safety. Tillett died in Buxton, Norfolk, at the age of 64. He was described as "widely-loved" in the obituary within the local paper, with "the streets lined with hatless and reverent spectators".

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* 1865 births 1929 deaths UK MPs 1900–1906 UK MPs 1906–1910 Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies People from Sprowston {{England-Liberal-UK-MP-stub