Tuesday, 7 November 2017
1726 Austin Taylor
Constituency : Liverpool Toxteth 1902-06 ( Conservative ), 1906-10
Austin was originally elected as a Conservative at a by-election in 1902. He was a staunch Unionist Free Trader and was repudiated by the local Conservative Asociation in 1906 although they did not stand a candidate against him and his nomination papers were signed by members of both parties. He was elected unopposed. A month later, he resigned from the Conservative party and joined the Liberals over the Valentine letters which apparently committed the Tories to protection. He was a low church Protestant , chairman of the anti-Ritualist Laymen's League of Liverpool.
Austin was a member of the Navy League.
Austin stood down in January 1910.
In 1918, Austin accepted the invitation to stand for Buckrose. He hoped to get the coupon but it was given to Algernon Moreing instead and Austin came third behind an Independent Labour candidate.
He died in 1955 aged 96.
We'll now move on to the by-election victors of the 1906-10 Pariament.
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