![]() |
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]
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]
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.
Edward William Macleay Grigg, 1st Baron Altrincham, was a British colonial administrator and politician.
Isle of Ely was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, centred on the Isle of Ely in Cambridgeshire. Until its abolition in 1983, it elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
Sir Rhys Rhys-Williams, 1st Baronet,, born Rhys Williams, was a British Liberal Party politician from Wales. He later left the Liberal Party for the Conservatives.
The Eastbourne by-election, 1925 was a parliamentary by-election for the British House of Commons constituency of Eastbourne, Sussex on 17 June 1925.
Hugh Mowbray Meyler was a British lawyer, army officer, balloon observer, and politician. After qualifying as a solicitor, and then serving in the British Army in the Second Boer War, he was a Unionist Party member of the first Parliament of the Union of South Africa from 1910 to 1914. After further army service in the First World War and in Ireland in the 1920s, he was the Liberal Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Blackpool in the UK from 1923 to 1924.
Horace Evelyn Crawfurd was a Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom.
Sir Albert James Bennett, 1st Baronet JP was a politician in the United Kingdom who was elected both as a Liberal Party Member of Parliament (MP) and as a Conservative Party MP.
Thomas Arthur Lewis was a Welsh school teacher, barrister and Liberal Party politician.
Charles Williams was a Conservative Party politician in England. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for constituencies in Devon from 1918 to 1922, and from 1924 to 1955.
Penry Williams was a Liberal Party politician in England. He was born in Middlesbrough, the son of Edward Williams, a Cleveland ironmaster. He was a brother of Aneurin Williams MP.
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Vivian Leonard Henderson MC was a British army officer and Conservative Party politician who was elected to the House of Commons three times, for three different constituencies.
Piers Gilchrist Thompson was an English publisher and Liberal Party politician.
Maurice Alexander, was a Canadian barrister and soldier who later moved to England and had careers in the Diplomatic Service, English law and politics.
Alexander Claude Forster Boulton was a British Liberal Party politician whose career in the House of Commons lasted barely four years.
Brigadier-General Sir George Kynaston Cockerill, was a British Army officer and a Conservative Party politician.
Lieutenant-Colonel Reginald Vincent Kempenfelt Applin, DSO, OBE was a British military officer who took a prominent part in the development of machine gun tactics in the British Army. He later entered politics, initially in two minor right wing parties before becoming a Conservative Party Member of Parliament.
The Scarborough and Whitby by-election was a parliamentary by-election for the British House of Commons constituency of Scarborough and Whitby on 6 May 1931.
The Bury St Edmunds by-election, 1944 was a parliamentary by-election for the British House of Commons constituency of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk on 29 February 1944.
The 1923 Whitechapel and St Georges by-election was a parliamentary by-election for the British House of Commons constituency of Whitechapel and St Georges on 8 February 1923.
John Gilbert Dale was a British scientist who also became a prominent trade union and political activist.
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)