Thursday, 20 December 2018
2126 Joseph Leckie
Constituency :Walsall 1931-38 ( from 1932 Liberal National )
Joseph took Walsall from Labour as the Tories withdrew despite coming second ( just ) in 1929.
Joseph was born in Glasgow and educated there. He joined his father's business in leather goods and saddlery. He was based in the Walsall office but travelled the world on business. He was a sometime president of the Walsall Chamber of Commerce and later on the council for the imperial body. He was a Walsall town councillor and active in temperance and social work, He was Mayor of the town in 1926-27. He was chair of Walsall Liberal Association from 1912 to his election.He was a Presbyterian.
When the Samuelites decided to quit the government, Joseph went over to the Liberal Nationals. He had an easy win in 1935.
Joseph started to struggle with deafness in his later years. He died following a seizure in 1938. He was 72.His work on Walsall's Educatioon Committee is commemorated by a school in the town.
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