Sunday 20 August 2017

1653 George Radford




Constituency  : Islington  East  1906-17

George  took  Islington  East  from  the  Tories.

George  was  born  in  Plymouth. He  was  educated  at  London  University. He  became  a  solicitor.  He  became  a  Progressive  councillor. He  took  a  prominent  part  in  L,C.C.  election  campaigns. He  was  Vice-Chair  of  the  National  Liberal  Club.

George  had  a  particular  interest  in  tramways  and  led  a  delegation  to  Budapest to  study  the  system  there.

George  opposed  the  formation  of  a  coalition  government  in  1915.

George  was  knighted  in  1916.

George  dabbled  in  poetry  and  literary  criticism.

He  died  in  1917  aged  66.

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