Charles McCurdy
Charles Albert McCurdy (13 March 1870 – 10 November 1941) was a British
Background
McCurdy was educated at Loughborough Grammar School and Pembroke College, Cambridge.[1]
Career
He then became a barrister. He was elected Member of Parliament for Northampton, then a two-member constituency, in 1910. He was returned in 1918 when it was reduced to a single-member seat, his former Liberal co-member Hastings Lees-Smith having sought election elsewhere and joined the Labour Party.
Coalition government
He was
Liberal reunion
After the coalition ended, McCurdy favoured Liberal reunion. He was influential in drawing up the Liberals' manifesto for the 1923 general election, moving it further in a free trade direction. However, he was not returned at that election. He died in November 1941, aged 71, a month before his former co-member for Northampton, Hastings Lees-Smith.
McCurdy's niece, Margaret Wingfield, was an influential member of the Liberal Party, and eventually its President.
Electoral record
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Guy Victor Baring
|
1,322 | 51.0 | -10.3 | |
Liberal | Charles Albert McCurdy | 1,272 | 49.0 | +10.3 | |
Majority | 50 | 2.0 | -20.6 | ||
Turnout | 87.0 | +5.4 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | -10.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Hastings Bertrand Lees-Smith | 5,398 | 23.3 | ||
Liberal | Charles Albert McCurdy | 5,289 | 22.9 | ||
Conservative | Richard Rouse Boughton Orlebar | 4,569 | 19.8 | ||
Conservative | Frederick Gorell Barnes | 4,464 | 19.3 | ||
Social Democratic Federation | James Gribble | 1,792 | 7.7 | ||
Social Democratic Federation | Henry Quelch | 1,617 | 7.0 | ||
Majority | 720 | 3.1 | |||
Turnout | 92.7 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Charles Albert McCurdy | 18,010 | 62.7 | ||
Labour | Walter Halls | 10,735 | 37.3 | n/a | |
Majority | 7,275 | 25.4 | |||
Turnout | 62.5 | ||||
Liberal hold | Swing | n/a |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
National Liberal
|
Charles McCurdy | 16,650 | 55.6 | -7.1 | |
Labour | Margaret Grace Bondfield | 13,279 | 44.4 | +7.1 | |
Majority | 3,371 | 11.2 | -14.2 | ||
Turnout | 67.1 | +4.6 | |||
National Liberal hold
|
Swing | -7.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
National Liberal | Rt Hon. Charles Albert McCurdy | 19,974 | 52.3 | -3.3 | |
Labour | Margaret Grace Bondfield | 14,498 | 37.9 | -6.5 | |
Liberal | Henry Harvey Vivian
|
3,753 | 9.8 | n/a | |
Majority | 5,476 | 14.4 | +3.2 | ||
Turnout | 85.5 | ||||
National Liberal hold | Swing | +1.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Margaret Grace Bondfield | 15,556 | 40.5 | +2.6 | |
Unionist
|
John Veasy Collier | 11,520 | 30.0 | n/a | |
Liberal | Rt Hon. Charles Albert McCurdy | 11,342 | 29.5 | n/a | |
Majority | 4,036 | 10.5 | |||
Turnout | 84.3 | ||||
Labour gain from Liberal | Swing | n/a |
References
- The Impact of Labour, 1920 - 1924 (Cambridge University Press, 1971) by Maurice Cowling.
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
External links
- Works by or about Charles McCurdy at Internet Archive
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Charles McCurdy