1654 Henry Stanger

Constituency : Kensington  North  1906-10

Henry  took  Kensington North  from  the  Tories.

Henry  was  from  Nottingham. He  was  educated  at  Oxford  and  became  a  barrister. He  stood  for  Newark  at a  by-election  in  1900  then  Nottingham  South  at  the  general  election.

Henry  supported  female  suffrage  ad  introduced  a  Private  Member's  Bill  to  that  effect  in  1908. It  passed  its  second  reading  but  Asquith  would  not  grant  it  parliamentary  time  to  go  further.

Henry  stood  down  in  January  1910.

Henry  was  independent  chairman  of  a  Nottinghamshire  wages  committee  under  the  Coal  Mines  ( Minimum  Wage ) Act.

He  died  in  1929  aged 79.