Sunday, 25 September 2016
1336 Walter Hazell
Constituency : Leicester 1894-1900
Walter, together with Henry Broadhurst replaced James Picton and James Whitehead in a double by-election at Leicester.
Walter was a Congregationalist and treasurer of the Peace Society. He was a partner in a printing and publishing firm. This enabled him to produce pamphlets on social reform. He introduced a sick fund in 1874.
In 1895, despite his pacifist inclinations, Walter declared that the time may be right to use force against the Sultan after the Armenian massacres.
Walter was a member of the Emigration Committee. He supported Women's Suffrage.
In 1900 Walter was edged into third place by the Conservatives.
He died in 1919 aged 76.
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