1643 Stopford Brooke

Constituency  : Bow  and  Bromley 1906-10

Stopford  took  Bow  and  Bromley  from  the  Tories.

Stopford  was  the  son  of  an  Irish  clergyman  of  the  same  name  who  became  chaplan  to  Queen  Victoria. He  was  educated  at  Winchester  and  Oxford. He  became  a  Unitarian  minister  at  a  church  in  Boston, Massachusetts. He  returned  to  the  UK  and  built  a  reputation  as  a  strong  preacher.

Stopford's  parliamentary  contributions  were  mainly  questions  about  unemployment  relief.

In  January  1910, the Conservatives  recaptured the  seat  and  Stopford  was  pushed  into  third  place  by  Labour's  George  Lansbury  ( who  took  the  seat  in  December  ). Stopford  tried  for  re-election  at  Bassetlaw  but  was  narrowly defeated.

He  died  in  1938  aged  78. His  son  Somerset  made  a couple of  attempts to  become  an  MP.