Constituency : Sowerby 1904-18
John took over at Sowerby on the resignation of John Mellor.
John was the son of an Accrington cotton manufacturer. He was privately educated. He was chairman of his father-in-law's jam manufacturing business and eventually headed his father's firm.. He was a Lancashire county councillor and Mayor of Accrington from 1899 to 1901.
John was an advanced Radical supporting diesestablishment of the church, Home Rule and railway nationalisation. He was a member of the Land Values Group supporting rating reform.
John was unopposed in 1910.
In 1918 John was offered the coupon but rejected it. As a consequence, he came third with the winner standing for the National Association of Discharged Sailors and Soldiers, a body that leaned towards the Conservatives.
John retired to Southport.
John was also treasurer of a regional temperance organisation and President of the UK Commercial Travellers' Association from 1926 to 1927.
He died in 1932 aged 74.
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