Walter Baker (British politician)
Walter John Baker (1876 – 2 December 1930)[1] was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bristol East from 1923 until his death.
Life
[edit]Baker was Assistant General Secretary of the Union of Post Office Workers, and head of their research department.[2][3] He unsuccessfully contested the 1918 and 1922 general elections in the Harborough division of Leicestershire.[4] At the 1923 general election he stood in Bristol East, where he won the seat from the National Liberal MP Harold Morris. Baker was re-elected in 1924 and 1929, and died in office in December 1930, aged 54.[4]
The resulting by-election in January 1931 was won by the Labour candidate Stafford Cripps.
References
[edit]- ^ "House of Commons constituencies beginning with "B" (part 6)". Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages. Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 14 April 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "Baker, Walter John". Who's Who. A & C Black. Retrieved 28 April 2022. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society (1930). Transactions - Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. The Society. p. 350.
- ^ a b Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. pp. 106, 411. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
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