Arthur Henderson was a British iron moulder and Labour politician. He was the first Labour cabinet minister,won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1934 and,uniquely,served three separate terms as Leader of the Labour Party in three different decades. He was popular among his colleagues,who called him "Uncle Arthur" in acknowledgement of his integrity,his devotion to the cause and his imperturbability. He was a transitional figure whose policies were,at first,close to those of the Liberal Party. The trades unions rejected his emphasis on arbitration and conciliation,and thwarted his goal of unifying the Labour Party and the trade unions.
Sir Arthur Cecil Tyrrell Beck was a British Liberal Party politician.
Evan Roderic Bowen QC was a Welsh lawyer and Liberal Party politician.
Michael Norman Shaw,Baron Shaw of Northstead,was a National Liberal and British Conservative Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1960 to 1964 and from 1966 to 1992 for the Conservatives.
(Charles) Norman Haseldine was a British Labour Co-operative politician. Born in Sheffield,he served as Member of Parliament for Bradford West from 1966 until his defeat at the 1970 general election by the Conservative candidate John Wilkinson.
Charles Butt Stanton was a British politician,who served as an Member of Parliament (MP) from 1915 to 1922. He entered Parliament by winning one of the two seats for Merthyr Tydfil at a by-election on 25 November 1915 caused by the death of Labour Party founder,Keir Hardie. After the two-member Merthyr Tydfil seat was divided into two single member seats,Stanton focused on the Aberdare division,which he won at the 1918 general election,but lost at the 1922 general election.
In the United Kingdom,general elections occur at least every five years. About 650 constituencies return a member of Parliament. Prior to 1945,electoral competition in the United Kingdom exhibited features which make meaningful comparisons with modern results difficult. Hence,unless otherwise stated,records are based on results since the 1945 general election,and earlier exceptional results are listed separately.
Sir Arthur Harold Marshall,KBE was an English Liberal Party politician. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Wakefield 1910–1918 and for Huddersfield 1922–1923.
The 1972 Rochdale by-election,was a parliamentary by-election held on 26 October 1972 for the British House of Commons constituency of Rochdale.
James Arthur Dawes was an English solicitor,businessman and Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) from 1910 to 1921.
Arthur Isidor Strauss was a British Liberal Unionist,and later Conservative Member of Parliament who latterly joined the Labour Party.
James Daniel Kiley was a British businessman and Liberal Party politician who served in the House of Commons from 1916 to 1922 as a Member of Parliament (MP) for constituencies in the Whitechapel area of the East End of London.
William Johnson MBE was an English coal miner,trade unionist and Liberal-Labour (Lib-Lab) politician from Warwickshire. He sat in the House of Commons from 1906 to 1918.
Arthur Richardson was an English merchant and Liberal–Labour politician from Nottinghamshire. He sat in the House of Commons from 1906 to 1918.
The Manchester South by-election was a Parliamentary by-election held on 5 March 1912. The constituency returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom,elected by the first past the post voting system.
The 1913 Leicester by-election was a Parliamentary by-election held on 27 June 1913. The constituency returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom,elected by the first past the post voting system.
The 1923 Anglesey by-election was a parliamentary by-election for the British House of Commons constituency of Anglesey on 7 April 1923.
An outbreak of smallpox in Bradford in 1962 first came to attention on 11 January 1962,when a cook from the children's hospital in Bradford,West Riding of Yorkshire,England,presented with an unexplained fever and was found to have changes in her blood similar to another sick person at the nearby St Luke's Hospital,both samples appearing compatible with smallpox. The index case was later discovered to be a nine-year old girl who arrived in the UK on 16 December 1961 from Karachi,Pakistan,where there was an ongoing epidemic of smallpox.
The Leeds Road Fever Hospital in Bradford,West Yorkshire,England,was a founded in 1867. In 1962,it was one of the hospitals that were quarantined during an epidemic of smallpox in Bradford.
