J. Lincoln Tattersall
John Lincoln Tattersall (16 April 1865 – 6 June 1942) was an English cotton merchant and Liberal Party politician.
Family
Tattersall was the son of Cornelius Tattersall a Manchester cotton merchant. In 1886, Cornelius bought the cotton mill at Woodeaves, near Ashbourne, Derbyshire, which employed around 100 workers. Cornelius installed his son John at the mill to give him manufacturing experience.[1] In 1893 Tattersall married Lizzie Harland and they established a home in the village of Thorpe, Derbyshire.[2] They later left Derbyshire and set up home in Prestbury, Cheshire. He named his new home Woodeaves.[3]
Philanthropy
Tattersall continued to take an interest in the area around
Career
Like his father, Tattersall was a cotton trader. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the Master Cotton Spinners Federation [5] and chairman,[6] later President of the Cotton Yarn Association.[7] In 1929 he became a director of the Lancashire Cotton Corporation, a huge new cotton combine set up with government and Bank of England support to amalgamate up to 150 mills in order to increase efficiency and create economies of scale in the face of the serious difficulties facing the industry in the 1920s.[8]
Politics
Tattersall first stood for
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist
|
John Rhodes | 17,216 | 49.1 | ||
Liberal | J. Lincoln Tattersall | 10,265 | 29.3 | ||
Labour | Percy Horace Ward | 7,578 | 21.6 | ||
Majority | 6,951 | 19.8 | |||
Turnout | 81.1 | +21.1 | |||
Unionist hold
|
Swing |
At the
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | J. Lincoln Tattersall | 17,082 | 53.7 | ||
Unionist
|
John Rhodes | 14,708 | 46.3 | ||
Majority | 2,374 | 7.4 | |||
Turnout | 72.2 | ||||
Unionist
|
Swing |
However, by
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist
|
Edmund Wood | 16,412 | 44.2 | ||
Labour | Walter Fowden | 12,509 | 33.7 | ||
Liberal | J. Lincoln Tattersall | 8,201 | 22.1 | ||
Majority | 3,903 | 10.5 | |||
Turnout | 84.0 | ||||
Unionist gain from Liberal
|
Swing |
Tattersall did not try for re-election to the
Death
Tattersall died on 6 June 1942, aged 77 years.[4]
References
- ^ "Issue 19.htm".
- ^ a b "FB biographies". Archived from the original on 8 July 2008. Retrieved 11 May 2009.
- ^ a b Who was Who, OUP 2007
- ^ a b c The Times, 9 June 1942 p1
- ^ The Times, 29 January 1904 p8
- ^ The Times, 6 August 1927 p12
- ^ The Times, 28 September 1927 p16
- ^ The Times, 25 January 1929 p16
- ^ a b c F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results, 1918-1949; Political Reference Publications, Glasgow, 1949 p308
- ^ a b The Times, 29 November 1923 p14
- ^ The Times, 21 October 1924 p8