Monday, 28 May 2018
1922 Thomas Casey
Constituency : Sheffield Attercliffe 1918-22
The coupon and William Anderson's opposition to the war enabled Thomas to take back Sheffield Attercliffe from Labour in a straight fight.
Thomas was the son of a colliery engineman from Sheffield. He was educated at Gleadless Church School. He started work on a farm then switched to collieries in South Yorkshire as a winding engineman. He was General Secretary of the National Winding and General Engineers Society for 25 years. He was a Methodist lay preacher and a district councillor for Mexborough.
Most of his parliamentary contributions were on mining issues.
In 1922 Thomas was resoundingly defeated in a straight fight with Labour.
Thomas contested Ilkeston in 1923 and Gloucester in 1929, both times coming third.
In 1935 he fought Rotherham as a Liberal National but made little impact.
He died in 1949 aged 80.
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