Tuesday, 2 January 2018
1782 Peter Raffan
Constituency : Leigh 1910-22, Edinburgh North 1923-4
Peter took over from John Brunner at Leigh. He came through a three cornered contest with Labour standing a candidate in the mining constituency.
Peter was chair of Monmouthshire County Council. He was a Congregationalist.
Peter became secretary of the Land Values Group in the Commons as a supporter of Henry George. He supported female suffrage, Welsh disestablishment and temperance.
Peter received the coupon by mistake in 1918 and defeated Labour in a two cornered contest. He attended the first "Wee Free" meeting in 1919.
Peter was defeated at Ayr Burghs in 1922 but returned for Edinburgh North in 1923. He was defeated in 1924.
He died in 1940 aged 77.
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