Sunday, 20 August 2017
1653 George Radford
Constituency : Islington East 1906-17
George took Islington East from the Tories.
George was born in Plymouth. He was educated at London University. He became a solicitor. He became a Progressive councillor. He took a prominent part in L,C.C. election campaigns. He was Vice-Chair of the National Liberal Club.
George had a particular interest in tramways and led a delegation to Budapest to study the system there.
George opposed the formation of a coalition government in 1915.
George was knighted in 1916.
George dabbled in poetry and literary criticism.
He died in 1917 aged 66.
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