1454 Maurice Levy

Constituency : Loughborough  1900-18

Maurice  took  over  from  Edward  Johnson-Ferguson  at  Loughborough.

Maurice  was from  Leicester. he  was  educated at  London  University. He  was  managing  director  of  a  wholesale  and  manufacturing  company. He  also  had  interests  in  banking. He  was  Jewish.

Maurice  opposed  the  1905  Aliens  Act  which  sought  to  restrict  Jewish  immigration  from  Eastern  Europe.

Maurice  was  knighted  in  1907  and  created  a  baronet  in  1913. He  became  a  junior  whip.

Maurice  opposed  female  suffrage in  1908  on  the  grounds  that  it  would  lead  to  women  wanting  seats  in  Parliament.

In  1913  Maurice  used  an  overheard  conversation  with  Ramsay  McDonald  in  a  by-election  campaign  at  Leicester  to  undermine  the  ILP  candidate  and  ease  the  passage  of  the  Liberal  to  victory.

In  1916  Maurice  was  sued  by  a  naval  lieutenant  for  suggesting  he  was  a  German  spy.

Maurice  worked  for  Lloyd  George  in  the  Ministry  of  Munitions. He  was  also  part  of  a  special  trade  mission  to  Ireland. Despite  his  own  religion  he  bought  a  pupit  for  a  Methodist  chapel  due  to  be  visited  by  Lloyd  George.

Maurice  stood  down  in  1918.

He  died  in  1933  aged 74.