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unusual facts about Empire City: 1931


Empire City: 1931

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Arthur Cecil Caporn

At the 1931 general election he was chosen by the Conservatives to contest Nottingham West, which was held by Arthur Hayday of the Labour Party.

Arthur Lewis Shepherd

He was re-elected in 1929, but when Labour split at the 1931 general election as Ramsay MacDonald led the breakaway National Labour group into a Conservative-dominated National Government, he lost his seat to the Conservative candidate Charles Peat.

Baron Teviot

It was created in 1940 for Charles Kerr, who had previously represented Montrose Burghs in the House of Commons, and served as Chief Whip for the National Liberal Party, a government whip and Comptroller of the Household in the National Government.

Charles Dukes, 1st Baron Dukeston

When Labour split in 1931 over the handling of budgetary response to the Great Depression, Dukes was defeated in the subsequent general election, and did not stand for election to the House of Commons again.

Charles Summersby

Summersby was selected to fight Shoreditch at the 1931 general election as a Liberal National and defeated the sitting Labour MP, Ernest Thurtle.

Clifford Erskine-Bolst

Erskine-Bolt returned to the House of Commons at the November 1931 general election, when he was elected in the Blackpool constituency, defeating the writer Edgar Wallace, who ran as an independent Liberal.

Combined Scottish Universities by-election, 1945

The seat had become vacant on 6 March 1945 when the National Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) George Morrison had resigned by the procedural device of accepting the post of Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead, a notional 'office of profit under the crown' which is used as a procedural device to enable MPs to resign from the Commons.

Constitution Act, 1982

In 1931, the British Parliament enacted the Statute of Westminster, 1931.

East Sydney by-election, 1931

The by-election was won by Labor candidate Eddie Ward, who was associated with New South Wales Premier Jack Lang's wing of the party.

Edgar Granville, Baron Granville of Eye

Becoming a Liberal National for the 1931, he served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to then Home Secretary, Sir Herbert Samuel, then to Sir John Simon, Foreign Secretary, in the National Governments of the 1930s.

German submarine U-198

Ranging farther up the east coast of Africa, U-198 sighted convoy DKA-21 on 6 August 1944 and attacked, sinking the 7,295 GRT British motor merchant vessel Empire City east of Mocímboa da Praia, Portuguese East Africa (now Mozambique).

Glasgow St Rollox by-election, 1931

The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Labour MP, James Stewart.

Guildford by-election, 1931

The Liberal candidate who had finished a strong second at the 1929 General election, Somerset Stopford Brooke, withdrew his candidature, allowing the Conservatives an uncontested return the day after Ramsay MacDonald formed his National Government.

Harry Kneebone

In 1931 he was appointed to the Australian Senate as a Labor Senator for South Australia, filling the casual vacancy caused by the death of Country Party Senator John Chapman, but lost it in the election of later that year.

Herbert Dunnico

At the 1931 general election, he was defeated in Consett by the National Liberal Party candidate John Dickie.

Islington East by-election, 1931

At the 1931 general election, Cazalet won the seat by a large majority, serving as Islington East's MP until her defeat by Labour's Eric Fletcher at the 1945 general election.

Kilmarnock by-election, 1933

The parties in the National Government did not contest by-elections when vacancies arose in seats held by other paties in the government, so the Unionist Party and the National Liberals did not field candidates.

Liverpool Wavertree by-election, 1931

Nall-Cain was re-elected at the general election in October 1931, and held the seat until the death in late 1934 of his father Charles, whom he succeeded as Baron Brocket, triggering another by-election.

The Conservative candidate was Ronald Nall-Cain, a wealthy barrister and a Hertfordshire County Councillor, while the Labour Party selected S.L. Treleaven.

It was won by the Conservative Party candidate Ronald Nall-Cain.

Maurice Alexander

Alexander did not contest the 1929 apparently reverting to his law practice in London but in 1931, perhaps influenced by his defeat by Buxton, he surfaced as the Labour candidate in Newcastle upon Tyne East.

Nick Brune

Working with ALPHA, he co-authored a learning resource that examines human rights abuses in China, 1931–1945.

Poplar South by-election, 1942

The by-election was caused by the death of the constituency's Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) David Morgan Adams, who had held the seat since the 1931 general election.

Results breakdown of the United Kingdom general election, 2010

The Conservatives gained more seats than at any other general election since their landslide result in 1931.

Scotty Bowman

In the summer of Bob Johnson, who had just won the Stanley Cup with the Penguins, was diagnosed with brain cancer.

Sir James Henderson-Stewart, 1st Baronet

In January 1933, Henderson-Stewart was adopted as Liberal National candidate for East Fife, where the death of the sitting Member of Parliament Sir James Duncan Millar had precipitated a by-election.

Spanish general election, 1931

This was the case with the Radical Socialist Party, led by Álvaro de Albornoz and Marcelino Domingo, which promulgated extremist views.

Ted Tripp

At the federal election later that year he contested Darling and in 1932 ran for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of King.

Westminster St George's by-election, 1931

He been MP for the constituency since the 1929 general election, having previously sat for Colchester since 1910 and had served in the cabinets of David Lloyd George and Stanley Baldwin during the 1920s.

The seat had become vacant on when the constituency's Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, died on 14 February, aged 62.

The Conservative Party originally selected John Moore-Brabazon.

William Lloyd George, 3rd Viscount Tenby

His father was a National Liberal politician who served as Home Secretary under Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden.

Willie Gallacher

Gallacher lost his West Fife seat to Labour at the 1950 General Election coming third behind the National Liberal candidate, but remained in politics and served as President of the CPGB from 1956 to 1963.


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