Sunday 22 January 2017

1448 James Duncan


Constituency : Otley  1900-18

James  recaptured  Otley  from  the  Tories.

James  was  a  West  Riding  county  councillor  and  a  member  of  its  technical  instruction  committee. He  was  a  director  of  a  gas  company  and  a  printing  business,

James  was  a  strong  critic  of  the  1902  Education  Act  in  Parliament. After  1906  he did  not  speak  in  the  House.

James  stood  down  when  the  seat  was  abolished  in  1918.

He  died  in  1928  aged  73.

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