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    John Wilson (1837 – 24 March 1915) was an English coal miner, trade unionist, and a Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for more than 25 years. Born at Greatham...
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  • parliament in 1621 John Wilson (Mid Durham MP) (1837–1915), miner, trade unionist and Liberal-Labour politician John William Wilson (1858–1932), Liberal...
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  • The 1890 Mid Durham by-election was held on 17 July 1890 after the death of the incumbent Liberal-Labour MP William Crawford. The seat was retained by...
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  • voting system. John Wilson, who had been the Liberal MP since 1890 died on the 24 March 1915 at the age of 78. Wilson was sponsored by the Durham Miners Association...
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  • Mid Durham was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP)...
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    Eastern Division of Durham, including the communities of Segefield and Billingham. It also included parts of the former Mid Durham seat (Ferryhill) and...
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  • The unitary authorities of Durham and Borough of Darlington are combined for parliamentary constituency boundaries, being divided into 8 parliamentary...
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  • Benjamin St John Ackers; MP for West Gloucestershire (1885) James Ackers; MP for Ludlow (1841–1847) Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 10th Baronet; MP for North Devon...
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  • North and Neston, City of Durham, Croydon West, Dwyfor Meirionnydd, Gower, Hampstead and Highgate, Harrow West, Leicester East, Mid Cheshire, Nottingham East...
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    1964 and again from 1970 to 1974, and a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1945 to 1983. Wilson is the only Labour leader to have formed administrations following...
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  • Elemore Hall (category Grade I listed buildings in County Durham)
    Elemore Hall is a mid-18th-century country house, now in use as a residential special school, near Pittington, County Durham, England. It is a Grade I...
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    (1974); and County Durham (2009). Stanley is in the UK parliamentary constituency of North Durham. Since 2001, this has been represented by MP Kevan Jones of...
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  • and Frith in the County Palatine of Durham. First elected as an Independent Labour Party member. Married to fellow MP Aneurin Bevan. She was made a life...
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    and John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury. He accordingly assumed the bear and the ragged staff, the arms of the medieval Earls of Warwick (Wilson 1981...
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    on 9 July 2024. Of the 650 MPs elected, over half (335) have never been an MP before. Notable newcomers to enter the House of Commons in this general election...
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  • Wren, MP for Wallingford in 1880, who was crippled by spinal disease since age of 18. Arthur Elliot, MP for Roxburghshire 1880–1892 and City of Durham 1898–1906...
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  • "Tadd" Roosevelt Jr. (1879–1958) Carrie Astor Wilson (1861–1948) Marshall Orme Wilson Jr. (1885–1966) John Jacob "Jack" Astor IV (1864–1912) William Vincent...
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  • was the incumbent MP for Mid Bedfordshire in Bedfordshire since a 2023 by-election, and stood in Hitchin in Hertfordshire. Incumbent MP for South Cambridgeshire...
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    Consett (category Towns in County Durham)
    Consett is a town in the County Durham district, in the ceremonial county of Durham, England, about 14 miles (23 km) south-west of Newcastle upon Tyne...
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    The Financial Secretary to the Treasury is a mid-level ministerial post in HM Treasury. It is nominally the fifth most significant ministerial role within...
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    Confident Association. In 1885 Crawford was elected Member of Parliament for Mid Durham and held the seat until his death aged 57. From 1889 to 1890 he was a...
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  • Huyton, 1950–83 James Wilson, Dudley, 1921–23 Phil Wilson, Sedgefield, 2007–2019 Robert John Wilson, Jarrow, 1922–31 William Tyson Wilson, Westhoughton, 1906–21...
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    of the Liberal Unionist MP Sir William Rattigan, and against the backdrop of St John Brodrick's proposed Army reforms, Wilson – writing anonymously as...
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  • Firemen 1906 1910 Jan John Wilson Houghton-le-Spring DMA 1885 1886 John Wilson Mid Durham DMA/MFGB 1890 1915 Sam Woods Ince MFGB 1892 1895 Sam Woods Walthamstow...
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    responsible government resulted in the abortive Rebellions of 1837. The Durham Report subsequently recommended responsible government and the assimilation...
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  • married John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham (1792–1840), MP for Durham, Lord Privy Seal (1830–1833) Frederick Lambton, 4th Earl of Durham (1855–1929), MP for...
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    on 5 May 2005, ordered by constituency. The previous MP and previous party column shows the MP and party holding the seat at dissolution on 11 April...
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    Darlington is a market and industrial town in County Durham, England. It is the main administrative centre of the unitary authority Borough of Darlington...
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  • 1857–74. Sir John Chetwode was 77 when he returned to the house in 1841, after a 22-year absence, as member for Buckingham. He was previously MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme...
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    elected unopposed as Member of Parliament (MP) for Mid Durham at a by-election in 1915, sponsored by the Durham Miners' Association. When that constituency...
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