Constituency : St Albans 1904-06
John took St Alban's when the Tory MP had to re-stand for taking a government contract. He was supported by the Free Trade Union and the evangelical Church Association. The campaign was rough with a violent disturbance when Lloyd George visited the constituency.
John was educated at the University of London and became a solicitor. He was one of the first members of Derbyshire County Couuncil . He was a Methodist lay preacher and temperance campaigner.
John's maiden speech was a denunciation of the 1902 Education Act.
John was a supporter of female suffrage and introduced a bill for it in 1905 which was talked out.
John was defeated by 552 votes in 1906. He was knighted immediately afterwards.
He died in 1909 aged 51.
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