Fred Jowett
Frederick "Fred" William Jowett , PC (* 31 January 1864 in Bradford , West Yorkshire , † 1. February 1944 ) was a British politician of the Independent Labor Party and the Labor Party , which intermittently for 16 years a member of the lower house ( House of Commons ) and was briefly Minister for Public Works in 1924. He was also from 1909 to 1911 and again between 1914 and 1917 chairman of the Independent Labor Party and from 1921 to 1922 chairman of the Labor Party congress.
Life
Worker, Member of the House of Commons and Chairman of the ILP
Frederick "Fred" William Jowett began working at the age of eight in 1872 in a textile mill in Bradford , which has worked full-time since 1877. In 1886 he became a foreman and, after evening classes at Bradford Technical College, he became the manager of the textile factory. Influenced by reading the socialist works of William Morris , he joined the Socialist League in 1887 and eventually founded a local association of the Independent Labor Party (ILP) in 1893 . After he had committed in his home town a few years in local politics, he was in the general election on 12 January 1906 for the Labor Party in the constituency Bradford West (39.1 percent) with 4,957 votes for the first time as a member of the lower house ( House of Commons ) . After his subsequent re-elections, he represented this constituency until the general election on December 14, 1918 . As the successor to Ramsay MacDonald , he served as chairman of the Independent Labor Party from 1909 until his replacement by William Crawford Anderson . As the successor to Keir Hardie , he was again chairman of the Independent Labor Party between 1914 and 1917 and was then replaced by Philip Snowden .
In the general election on December 14, 1918, Jowett ran in the Bradford East constituency for re-entry into the lower house, but was defeated by the National Democratic and Labor Party candidate , Charles Edgar Loseby (9390 votes, 41.1 ) with 8,637 votes (37.9) Percent). In 1921 he replaced Alexander Gordon Cameron as Chairmen of the Annual Conference of the Labor Party and held this position until 1922, when Sidney Webb succeeded him. In the general election on November 15, 1922 , Jowett was elected in the Bradford East constituency with 13,573 votes (45.4 percent) and was able to prevail against the constituency owner Charles Edgar Loseby, who received 9926 votes (33.2 percent). He was re-elected in the subsequent general election on December 6, 1923 with 13,579 votes (48.1 percent).
Minister for Public Works and Loss of Mandates
In the first MacDonald government, he held the office of Minister of Public Works (First Commissioner of Works) between January 23, 1924 and November 4, 1924 . He was also a member of the Secret Privy Council on January 23, 1924 ( Privy Council ) called In the general election on October 29, 1924 , however, he lost with 15,174 votes (49.9 percent) less than its lower house mandate to the candidate of the Liberal Party , Thomas Fenby , which received 15,240 votes (50.1 percent). In 1927 he succeeded Charles Roden Buxton as treasurer of the Independent Labor Party and held it until he was replaced by Percy Williams in 1944. In the general election on May 30, 1929 , he was re-elected to the House of Commons for the ILP in the Bradford East constituency with 21,398 votes (54.7 percent), defeating the constituency owner Thomas Fenby (17,701 votes, 45.3 percent) .
In the following general election on May 27, 1931 , Jowett lost the Bradford East constituency with 15,779 votes (41.19 percent) to the challenger from the Conservative Party , Joseph Hepworth (22,532 votes, 58.81 percent). In the general election on November 14, 1935 , he ran again against Hepworth, but this time lost with 8983 votes (26.61 percent) to 11,131 votes (32.98 percent). He was second out of four candidates.
Web links
- Mr Noel Buxton at Hansard (English)
- Cameron Hazlehurst, Sally Whitehead, Christine Woodland: A Guide To The Papers of British Cabinet Ministers, 1900–1964 , Series: Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1996, ISBN 0-521-58743-3 , pp. 209 f.
- Fred Jowett - "A great man of a new kind" in Independent Labor Pubilcations
Individual evidence
- ↑ GOVERNMENT MACDONALD
- ↑ PRIVY COUNSELLORS 1915--1968 in Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jowett, Fred |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jowett, Frederick William (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British politician, Member of the House of Commons |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 31, 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bradford , West Yorkshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 1, 1944 |