Samuel Forde Ridley
Samuel Forde Ridley (1864 – 17 November 1944) was a British industrialist and Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politician. Biography Born 1864, he was son of Samuel Edwin Ridley of St Helens, Isle of Wight and his wife Nona Jackson Kent. After education at Clifton College he entered the family firm of Ridley, Whitley and Company, linoleum manufacturers. He first entered politics in 1895, when he was an unsuccessful candidate for the Conservative-backed Municipal Reform Party, Moderate Party in the London County Council elections of that year. In September 1900, he was selected as Conservative and Unionist candidate to contest the parliamentary seat of Bethnal Green South West (UK Parliament constituency), Bethnal Green South West, held by the prominent Liberal Party (UK), Liberal MP, Edward Pickersgill. Ridley's pro Second Anglo-Boer War, war stance saw him unexpectedly take the seat from Pickersgill at the 1900 United Kingdom general election, general election of ...
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Forde Ridley
Forde may refer to: * Forde (surname) * Førde (other) * Forde Abbey, Dorset, England * Forde Inquiry, 1999 report on child abuse presented to the government of Queensland, Australia * Forde, Australian Capital Territory, suburb in Canberra, Australia * Division of Forde, Electoral Division in Queensland, Australia * Forde Ministry, thirty-second Australian Commonwealth ministry, 6–13 July 1945 * Seaforde, a village in County Down, Northern Ireland (named for a family called Forde) See also

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