Constituency : Rossendale 1892-1900 1917-8
This one turns a personal corner for me as John is the first of a clutch of Lancashire MPs whose fortunes I covered in my university dissertation.
John chalked up a significant victory over the Liberal Unionists, taking Hartington's Rossendale seat when the latter finally became Duke of Devonshire. John headed a cotton spinning and manufacturing firm. He was mayor of Bacup thirteen times altogether.
John stood down in 1900 before the election and was replaced by William Mather.
John was knighted in 1915.
John was persuaded to stand again in 1917 when Lewis Harcourt was elevated to the peerage. Despite an easy victory over an independent, he was hammered in the election a year later when he came third behind a couponed Conservative and a Labour candidate.
John gave land in Bacup for a new Liberal club, baths and recreation ground.
He died in 1920 aged 57.
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