Saturday, 27 October 2018
2071 Innes Stranger
Constituency : Newbury 1923-4
Innes took Newbury from the Tories at the second attempt. In a straight fight he won by 41 votes.
Innes was educated privately and became a barrister.
Innes was on the left wing of the party. He voted to keep Labour in office in 1924.
Innes was defeated by more than the Labour vote in 1924.
Innes travelled in Africa and in 1930 had to make an emergency landing in the jungle. In 1936 he was made Recorder of Sunderland.
He died of a heart attack in 1936 aged 57.
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