1655 Joel Seaverns

Constituency : Brixton  1906-10

Joel  took  Brixton  from  the  Tories  by  286  votes.

Joel  was  the  son  of  a  doctor  from  Boston, Massachusetts. He  was  educated  at  Harvard. He  was  a  partner  in  a  firm  of  colonial  merchants  and  came  over  to  run  their  London  office  in  1884. He  was  a  founding  member  of  the  County  of  London  Territorial  Force  Association  and  vice-president  of  the  National  Association  of  Shop  Assistants.

In  1909  Joel  fell  ill  and  went  to  Switzerland  to  convalesce. He  was  not  able  to  campaign  effectively  in  January  1910  and  was  defeated. He  was  unsuccessful  again  in  December.

Joel's  son  was  killed  in  action  in  1915.

Joel  stood  for  Gainsborough  in  1922.

He  died  of  septicaemia  in  1923  aged  62.