Tuesday, 23 October 2018
2067 Sydney Robinson
Constituency : Chelmsford 1923-4
Sydney took Chelmsford from the Tories at the second attempt in a straight fight.
Sydney was born in Essex and educated in Walthamstow and at Metropolitan College, Chicago. He worked as a building contractor but also farmed in Chelmsford breeding shorthorn dairy cattle. He was an Essex county councillor. He contested Essex South East in 1918 but lost his deposit. In 1922, he came second in Chelmsford.
Sydney introduced a bill to include farm workers in the National Insurance scheme.
In 1924 Sydney lost by more than the Labour vote but Labour prevented him from re-taking it in a by-election in 1926 and in 1929. In 1931, he switched to Walthamstow West but came a distant third. In 1945, he stood in Epping but again trailed a long way behind in third place.
He died in 1950 aged 74.
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