Thomas Williams (Kennington MP)
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Samuel Beauchamp Williams (1877 – 7 July 1927)[1] was a British physician of the Indian Medical Service, and a Labour Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Kennington division of Lambeth from 1923 to 1924.[1]
Biography
[edit]In 1902, he passed out from the Army Medical School, Punjab, and gained the rank of Lieutenant in the Indian Medical Service. He reached the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, a brevet promotion in the Indian Medical Service in 1917,[2] serving through the First World War. In 1922, he criticised the hospitals policy of the British Medical Association from the Labour Party point of view.[3]
Williams first stood for Parliament at the 1922 general election in Bridgwater division of Somerset, where came a poor third with only 6.7% of the votes.[4] At the 1923 general election he stood in Kennington, a Conservative-held seat which he won[5] with a majority of 2.4% of the votes.[6] However, he was defeated at the next general, election in October 1924 by the Conservative candidate George Harvey,[6] and polled a poor third at the June 1925 by-election in Eastbourne,[7] after which he did not stand again.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "K" (part 1)
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 December 2013. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Supplement 942". British Medical Journal. 1 (3206): S221–S228. 1922. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.3206.s221. PMC 2416320.
- ^ Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 454. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- ^ "No. 32897". The London Gazette. 11 January 1924. p. 362.
- ^ a b Craig, page 34
- ^ Craig, page 480
Further reading
[edit]- T. S. B. Williams, A Lecture On Leprosy: A New View Of Its Bacteriology And Treatment, The British Medical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 2659 (16 December 1911), pp. 1582–1585
External links
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