Recent appearances

• Orders of the Day — Pensions (Appeal Tribunal). 10 Nov 1920

  I can understand this matter being brought forward, because I know that very much suffering has been involved by the delays of the Appeal Tribunal. One must also appreciate the fact that the Ministry of Pensions is not altogether to blame. The disabled men, the National Association of Discharged Soldiers, the Federation, and the Comrades of the Great War specially asked—I am speaking of the...

• Orders of the Day — Pensions (Appeal Tribunal). 10 Nov 1920

  Who selects the members?

• Oral Answers to Questions — Unemployment.: Mining Dispute (Pamphlet Distribution). 21 Jul 1920

  50. asked the Minister of Labour if he is aware that on 9th July, 1925, an applicant for employment at Cardiff Employment Exchange was sent to Newbridge, Monmouthshire, to distribute pamphlets printed by the Tudor Printing Works, Cardiff: that these pamphlets were issued in the interest of the South Wales coalowners on the present situation in the mining industry; and will he see that...

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Former MP for Sowerby

Entered the House of Commons on 14 December 1918 — General election

Left the House of Commons on 26 October 1922 — General election

Previous MPs in this constituency

• John Higham
• John Mellor
• Edward Crossley

Future MPs in this constituency

• William Simpson-Hinchliffe
• Arnold Williams
• Geoffrey Shaw
• William Tout
• Malcolm McCorquodale
• John Belcher
• Douglas Houghton
• Max Madden
• Donald Thompson