900 Sidney Woolf

Constituency : Pontefract 1880-85

Sidney's  victory  made  it  two  Liberals  in  Pontefract  for  the  first  time  since  1863.

Sidney  was  the  son  of  a  china  merchant  who  had  a  pottery  business   in  Ferrybridge.  He  was  Jewish  and  educated  at  University  College  London  and  Frankfurt. Sidney  expanded  the  business  in  Knottingley  and  became  a  prominent  citizen  in  the  town.

Sidney  was  living  in  Johannesburg  in  1897  but  later  returned  to  the  UK.

He  died  in  1918  aged  81.