Clyde Wilson (politician)
Clyde Tabor Wilson (21 September 1889 – 13 November 1971)[1][2] was a British Conservative Party politician.
Born in Birkenhead on Merseyside, he moved to London to study law and was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1913.[1]
From 1925 to 1935 he sat as a Municipal Reform Party councillor representing Wandsworth Central on the London County Council. The Municipal Reformers were allied to the parliamentary Conservatives.[3]
At the 1931 general election, he was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Liverpool West Toxteth, winning the seat with a large majority over the sitting Labour Party MP, Joseph Gibbins. This was Wilson's second attempt to enter Parliament — he had unsuccessfully contested the 1929 general election in the Labour-held London constituency of Lambeth North. In 1934 he was appointed Recorder of Birkenhead.[1] He served less than four years in the House of Commons, resigning his seat in 1935 to become a Metropolitan Police magistrate. At the resulting by-election in July 1935, Gibbins regained the seat.[4]
Wilson retired from his post as magistrate in 1962.[1][5] He died at his home in Eastbourne in 1971, aged 82.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Obituary: Mr C. T. Wilson". The Times. 15 November 1971. p. 14.
- ^ "House of Commons constituencies beginning with "W" (part 3)". Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages. Archived from the original on 24 October 2018. Retrieved 27 April 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Jackson, W Eric (1965). Achievement. A Short History of the LCC. London: Longmans. p. 270.
- ^ Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [First published 1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. pp. 35, 183. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- ^ "Senior Magistrate Retiring". The Times. 8 May 1962. p. 8.
- ^ "Deaths". The Times. 15 November 1971. p. 1.
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