Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Samuel Beauchamp Williams (1877 – 7 July 1927)
was a British physician of the
Indian Medical Service, and a
Labour Party politician. He was the
Member of Parliament (MP) for the
Kennington division of
Lambeth
Lambeth () is a district in South London, England, in the London Borough of Lambeth, historically in the County of Surrey. It is situated south of Charing Cross. The population of the London Borough of Lambeth was 303,086 in 2011. The area expe ...
from 1923 to 1924.
Biography
In 1902, he passed out from the Army Medical School, Punjab, and gained the rank of Lieutenant in the
Indian Medical Service. He reached the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, a
brevet promotion in the Indian Medical Service in 1917, serving through the
First World War. In 1922, he criticised the hospitals policy of the
British Medical Association
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from the Labour Party point of view.
Williams first stood for
Parliament at the
1922 general election in
Bridgwater division of Somerset, where came a poor third with only 6.7% of the votes.
At the
1923 general election he stood in Kennington, a
Conservative-held seat which he won with a majority of 2.4% of the votes.
[Craig, page 34] However, he was defeated at the
next general, election in October 1924 by the Conservative candidate
George Harvey,
and polled a poor third at the
June 1925 by-election in
Eastbourne,
[Craig, page 480] after which he did not stand again.
References
Further reading
*T. S. B. Williams, ''A Lecture On Leprosy: A New View Of Its Bacteriology And Treatment'', The British Medical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 2659 (16 December 1911), pp. 1582–1585
External links
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1877 births
1927 deaths
20th-century English medical doctors
Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Members of the Fabian Society
UK MPs 1923–1924
Politics of the London Borough of Lambeth
Indian Medical Service officers
Indian Army personnel of World War I
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