Friday, 24 August 2018
2008 Maxwell Thornton
Constituency : Tavistock 1922-24
Maxwell took Tavistock from the Tories in a straight fight. He was an Asquithian.
Maxwell was a vicar's son from Kensington. He was educated at St Paul's School, London. He became a solicitor. In 1903 he became the law officer for the Straits Settlements in South East Asia.
Maxwell was a strong advocate of Liberal reunion and convened a meeting of Liberal MPs in February 1923 to discuss it. Asquith cold shouldered it.
Maxwell held his seat in 1923 and became a whip.
Maxwell was defeated in 1924.
Maxwell resigned from the party in protest at the publication Land and the Nation which proposed a form of land nationalisation. Maxwell described this as "coquetting with Socialism".
He died in 1950 aged 72.
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