William Tyson Wilson (1855 – 14 August 1921) was a British
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ist and
Labour
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politician.
Tyson was born in
Westmorland
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, moving to
Bolton
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,
Lancashire
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, in 1889.'Labour MP's sudden death', ''The Times'', 17 August 1921, p.10 He was a carpenter, and joined the Bolton branch of the
Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners
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History
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. He was a member of the executive or general council of the union on several occasions from 1893, and was chairman of the general council in 1910.
At the 1906 general election Wilson was one of 29 successful Labour Representation Committee candidates, being elected MP for
Westhoughton
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school meals
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service. The bill received the support of the government and was enacted as the
Education (Provision of Meals) Act 1906
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Margaret McMillan and Fred Jowett were members of the School Board which introduced free school meals in Bradford. This was actually illegal and the S ...
.
He was made a whip in 1915, and was promoted to chief whip in 1919, when the Labour Party became the official
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.
W T Wilson died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage on a Bolton street on Sunday, 14 August 1921. He was buried in St Peter's Churchyard,
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