Percy Henry Collick (16 November 1897 – 24 July 1984) was a British
Labour Party politician and
trade union
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official.
Originally a
railway fireman with the
Southern Railway, he was a member of the
Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen
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, serving as organising secretary from 1934 to 1940 and assistant
general secretary
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from 1940 to his retirement in 1957.
He was an unsuccessful candidate at the
1929 general election in the safe
Conservative
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constituency of
Reigate
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in
Surrey
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, coming third with 20.9% of the votes. He stood again in Reigate at the
1931 general election, when there was no
Liberal
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candidate, and he came second with only 17.3% of the vote, a Conservative majority of over 65%. He did not contest the
1935 general election.
In the Labour landslide at the
1945 general election, he was elected as
Member of Parliament
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for the
Merseyside
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constituency of
Birkenhead West, overturning the previous Conservative majority of 3,753 with a swing of 13.2%.
His constituency was abolished in boundary changes for the
1950 general election, and he was returned for the new
Birkenhead
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constituency. He held the seat until he retired from the
House of Commons
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at the
1964 general election.
In
Clement Attlee
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's
post-war Labour government, he served as
from 1945 to 1947.
References
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External links
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Catalogue of Collick's papers held at the
Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
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1897 births
1984 deaths
Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen-sponsored MPs
Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1945–1950
UK MPs 1950–1951
UK MPs 1951–1955
UK MPs 1955–1959
UK MPs 1959–1964
English trade unionists
Southern Railway (UK) people
Ministers in the Attlee governments, 1945–1951
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