Monday, 29 October 2018
2073 Frank Raffety
Constituency : Bath 1923-4
Frank took Bath from the Tories in a straight fight.
Frank was from Wycombe. He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe. He became a barrister. He was honorary secretary of the Social and political Education League and a member of the Eighty Club. In 1909 he published a book on taxation. In 1921 he contested Lewisham West in a by-election but came third behind the Tory and the Anti-Waste League candidate. In 1922 he became a Progressive councillor. In 1922 he contested Bristol West but was well beaten in a straight fight with the Tories.
In 1924, Frank was defeated by more than the Labour vote.In 1929 he came second at Cheltenham. In 1935, he came second at East Dorset.
Frank became chairman of the Industrial Co-Partnership Association and remained active in the party as a speaker.
He died in 1946 aged 71.
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