Wednesday, 24 January 2018
1803 Henry Chancellor
Constituency : Haggerston 1910-1918
Henry recovered the 1908 by-election gain of Haggerston from the Tories.
Henry was educated at Elmfield College, York. He ran a radical newspaper, The Londoner , from 1896 to 1899. He was a pacifist and a temperance advocate.
Henry was President of the English League for the Taxation of Land Values in 1910 and 1920.
Henry opposed conscription.
Henry favoured closer co-operation with the Labour party and helped found a Radical Committee.
In 1918, Henry's constituency was reorganised and he found himself up against Christopher Addison, one of Lloyd George's closest lieutenants. Naturally, he received the coupon and Henry came a bad fourth.
Henry remained active in the pacifist movement and was Honorary Secretary of the International Arbitration League in 1938.
He died in 1945 aged 81.
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