Friday, 15 June 2018
1940 George Britton
Constituency : Bristol East 1918-22
George took Bristol East from Charles Hobhouse who refused to support the coalition. Hobhouse ended up coming a very poor third behind Labour.
George was head of a boot and shoe manufacturing company, a major employer in Bristol. He became a city councillor in 1897. He was a strong supporter of Lloyd George and suggested the formation of a Commonwealth party from the Conservatives and Liberals. Hobhouse's denunciation provoked a split in the Bristol East Liberal Association and George accepted nomination as a Coalition Liberal candidate.
George's few parliamentary contributions were on business matters.
George stood down in 1922.
He died in 1929 aged 66.
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