Sunday, 17 June 2018
1942 Sir Ashton Lister
Constituency : Stroud 1918-22
Sir Ashton took over from Charles Allen at Stroud. He received the coupon and defeated Labour in a straight fight.
Ashton was the head of a firm that made agricultural machinery. He went to the Paris Exhibition in 1867 and had worked extensively in Canada. He was 73 at the time of his election and had contested Tewkesbury in 1906 and both 1910 elections coming pretty close each time. He was a Gloucestershire county councillor. He was knighted in 1911.
Ashton stood down in 1924.
He died in 1929 aged 84.
That concludes our look at the victors of 1918. We now move to the by-election winners of the 1918 to 1922 Parliament.
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