Sunday, 5 November 2017
1724 Levi Morse
Constituency : Wilton 1906-10
Levi took Wilton from the Tories.
Levi was educated at Swindon High School. He became a prominent grocer and draper, owning a large department store in Swindon and a number of other stores in the south west as well as a mail order business. He was Mayor of Swindon in 1901 and an alderman on Wiltshire County Council. He was a Primitive Methodist and Vice-Chair of the Primitive Methodist Conference in 1896. He was a lay preacher and accomplished organist.
Levi asked just a couple of questions in Parliament.
In 1908 Levi attended a Conference of the Inter-parliamentary Union in Berlin.
By January 1910 Levi's health had declined and he did not seek re-election.
He died in 1913 aged 60. His son William was briefly a Liberal MP in the twenties.
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