Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Samuel Beauchamp Williams (1877 – 7 July 1927) was a British physician of the

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, and a Labour Party politician. He was the

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(MP) for the Kennington division of Lambeth from 1923 to 1924.

Biography

In 1902, he passed out from the Army Medical School, Punjab, and gained the rank of Lieutenant in the

. He reached the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, a

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in the Indian Medical Service in 1917, serving through the

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. In 1922, he criticised the hospitals policy of the British Medical Association from the Labour Party point of view. Williams first stood for

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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

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-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

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,Craig, page 480 after which he did not stand again.

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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 {{England-Labour-UK-MP-stub

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