Tuesday, 9 January 2018
1789 Gerald Ogden
Constituency : Pudsey 1910-18
Frederick reversed the Tories' by-election gain of 1908 ( due to the intervention of an Independent Labour candidate ).
Frederick was from Leeds and owned a boot factory. He was chairman of the city council's waterworks committee. He was a Methodist lay preacher.
Frederick's maiden speech argued against the huge increase in the naval estimates for 1910.
Frederick stood down in 1918. In 1929 he stood in Bradford South and came second.
He died in 1933 aged 61.
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