Wednesday, 21 May 2014
514 John Fildes
Constituency : Great Grimsby 1865-8
John took Great Grimsby back into the Liberal fold after the Conservative's by-election victory in 1862. Interestingly both John and his opponent John Chapman were directors of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway.
In turn John was removed in 1868 by another railway man George Tomline who had switched over from Shrewsbury.
John was a Manchester stockbroker. He was also known as a campaigner against capital punishment.
He died in 1875 aged 63.
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