Friday, 16 February 2018
1826 Frederick Booth
Constituency : Pontefract 1910-18
Frederick took over from Thomas Nussey at Pontefract.
Frederick was born near Manchester and educated at Bolton-le-Moors. He contested King's Lynn in 1900. He was chairman of the Yorkshire Iron and Coal Company.
Frederick led the government inquiry into the Marconi scandal.
Frederick raised the issue of carrier pigeons at the start of World War One saying "An enemy alien with a racing pigeon is far more dangerous than one with a live bomb".
In 1917, Frederick was found guilty of fraud after tricking a German born munitions manufacturer into signing over his company to him and then having him interned. Evidence from Christopher Addison helped to convict Frederick.
In 1918 Frederick contested Wentworth instead and came third behind Labour and a couponed Conservative.
He died in 1947 aged 79.
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