Constituency : Norfolk South West 1906-23, Gainsborough 1923-4
Before we move on to the 1918 victors, here's a mistake that needs correcting.
Richard won South West Norfolk at the third attempt in 1906.
Richard was from Lincolnshire. He went into the newspaper business by purchasing the Spalding Guardian then gradually acquired other titles. His group eventually became the emap publishing empire. He also worked as a chemist. He was a Congregationalist.
Richard was an advanced radical but still essentially Gladstonian in outlook.
Richard steered the Poisons and Pharmacy Act 1908. He was PPS to Lord Carington at the Board of Agriculture between 1906 and 1910.
Richard was Mayor of Peterborough in 1914; he was knighted the same year. He also launched a public appeal for Belgian refugees. He returned to the Agriculture department and was Parliamentary Secretary there between 1916 and 1918.
Richard received the coupon in 1918 and was elected unopposed. He had distanced himself from Lloyd George by 1922 but was only opposed by Labour and won reasonably comfortably. For the 1923 election, he switched to Gainsborough and took it from the Tories. He was pushed into third place in 1924.
Richard was a champion of smallholders and agricultural labourers. He was Treasurer of the Eastern Counties Agricultural Labourers & Small Holders Union.
He died in 1944 aged 84.
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