Arthur Lockwood (politician), Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Arthur Lockwood (politician)

British political activist

Date of Birth: 23-Oct-1883

Date of Death: 19-Feb-1966

Profession: journalist, election agent

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Arthur Lockwood (politician)

  • Arthur Lockwood (23 October 1883 – 19 February 1966) was a British political activist. Born in the Darnall area of Sheffield, Lockwood left school at the age of fourteen.
  • He took various jobs before settling as a pattern-maker.
  • He spent much of his spare time at the Darnall Congregational Church and its associated temperance society.
  • An early member of the Workers Educational Association, he also joined the Independent Labour Party and the Labour Party.
  • This political activity led his employer to sack him, and he instead became an insurance agent.In 1912, Lockwood stood as a Labour candidate for the Darnall ward on Sheffield City Council, although he was easily defeated.
  • Undeterred, he stood for Sheffield Hillsborough at the 1918 UK general election, with the backing of what became the Co-operative Party.
  • He took 4,050 and a distant second place, but was considered to have built up the party, locally, enabling A.
  • V.
  • Alexander to win the seat for the party in 1922.
  • Lockwood instead moved to London to act as election agent for Alfred Barnes, who won East Ham South in 1922 as a joint Co-operative-Labour candidate.Following this success, Lockwood became the election agent for the Reading Labour Party and, by 1924, the party's first MP for the town was elected.
  • While in the town, Lockwood also ran the Reading Citizen, a labour movement newspaper, and stood regularly for the town council, but did not win a seat until 1932; he served until 1939, and also for a year in 1944.
  • In 1930, he became the circulation manager for Reynolds' News, but remained based in Reading and served on the committee of the Reading Co-operative Society, including a stint as president from 1947 until 1959.
  • He retired from Reynolds in 1947 and served on the Southern Electricity Board, in 1954 again winning a seat on the council, and serving as Mayor of Reading in 1956.

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