1306 Reuben Barrow

Constituency : Bermondsey  1892-5

Reuben  took  Bermondsey  from  the  Tories.

Reuben  ( like  his  Tory  opponent  )  was  a  leather  merchant . Reuben  was  mayor  of  Croydon  in  1885. He  was  a  Baptist.

Reuben  was  responsible  for  the  London  ( Equalisation  of  Rates )  Bill  which  redistributed  cash  from  the  richer  boroughs  to  poorer  ones.

Reuben  was  defeated  by  his  Tory  predecessor  in  1895   despite  the  support  of  the  working  class  population.

Reuben  was  knighted  in  1912.

He  died  in  1918  aged  79.