John Sears (Liberal MP), Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

John Sears (Liberal MP)

Architect and Member of the United Kingdom Parliament

Date of Birth: 28-Nov-1857

Date of Death: 20-Jan-1941

Profession: architect, politician

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About John Sears (Liberal MP)

  • John Edward Sears (28 November 1857 – 20 January 1941) was a British architect and politician.He was the son of the Reverend James Sears, a Baptist minister in Camberwell in south London, and quickly became involved in the activities of the church as a teacher and librarian.
  • He was also the leader of the local Band of Hope temperance organisation and was associated with Baptist churches in the Peckham area.
  • Sears was educated privately before being articled to C G Searle and S C Searle, architects in 1872.
  • At the same time he studied architecture at University College London and the Royal Academy Schools.
  • He became a qualified architect in 1880 and was made a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1889.
  • For several years he acted as editor of the annual Architect’s Compendium and Catalogue.
  • He subsequently moved to Hendon in Middlesex, a northern suburb of London.
  • He was a member of the Hendon School Board and a deacon of Hendon Baptist Church. In 1901 Sears was elected to the London County Council as a member of the majority Progressive Party representing Hackney North.
  • The Progressives were allied to the parliamentary Liberal Party.
  • He became the chairman of the council's Bridges and Housing Committees.
  • He was re-elected in 1904.At the 1906 general election Sears was chosen by the Liberals to contest the constituency of Cheltenham.
  • The seat had been held by the Conservative Party since the 1880s, but Sears unexpectedly unseated James Agg-Gardner, the sitting member of parliament.
  • He served a single term in the Commons, and the Conservatives regained the Cheltenham seat at the next election in January 1910.He married Selina Marianne Read and they had one son.
  • He died at his home in Teddington in January 1941 aged 83.

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