Thomas Williams (Kennington MP)

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Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Samuel Beauchamp Williams (1877 – 7 July 1927) [1] was a British physician of the Indian Medical Service, and a Labour Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Kennington division of Lambeth from 1923 to 1924. [1]

Indian Medical Service military medical service in British India

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Kennington was a borough constituency centred on the Kennington district of South London. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Biography

He was born in 1877.

In 1902 he passed out from the Army Medical School, Punjab, and gained the rank of Lieutenant in the Indian Medical Service. He reached the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, a brevet promotion in the Indian Medical Service in 1917, [2] serving through the First World War. In 1922 he criticised the hospitals policy of the British Medical Association from the Labour Party point of view. [3]

The British Medical Association (BMA) is the professional association and registered trade union for doctors in the United Kingdom. The association does not regulate or certify doctors, a responsibility which lies with the General Medical Council. The association's headquarters are located in BMA House, Tavistock Square, London. Additionally, the association has national offices in Cardiff, Belfast, and Edinburgh, a European office in Brussels and a number of offices in English regions. The BMA has a range of representative and scientific committees and is recognised by National Health Service (NHS) employers as sole contract negotiators for doctors.

Williams first stood for Parliament at the 1922 general election in Bridgwater division of Somerset, where came a poor third with only 6.7% of the votes. [4] At the 1923 general election he stood in Kennington, a Conservative-held seat which he won [5] with a majority of 2.4% of the votes. [6] However, he was defeated at the next general, election in October 1924 by the Conservative candidate George Harvey, [6] and polled a poor third at the June 1925 by-election in Eastbourne, [7] after which he did not stand again.

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References

  1. 1 2 Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "K" (part 1)
  2. ↑ http://www.edinburgh-gazette.co.uk/issues/13135/pages/1848/page.pdf
  3. ↑ "Supplement 942". British Medical Journal. 1 (3206): S221–S228. 1922. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.3206.s221. PMC   2416320 .
  4. ↑ Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 454. ISBN   0-900178-06-X.
  5. ↑ "No. 32897". The London Gazette . 11 January 1924. p. 362.
  6. 1 2 Craig, page 34
  7. ↑ Craig, page 480

Further reading

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Francis Capel Harrison 		Member of Parliament for Kennington
1923 – 1924 		Succeeded by
George Harvey


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