Mont Follick

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Mont Follick MP for Loughborough 1945-1955

Montefiore Follick (31 December 1887

decimal currency. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Loughborough from 1945 to 1955, having previously held the post of Professor of English at the University of Madrid in Spain.[3] He had been adopted by the Loughborough Labour Party in 1936 as prospective parliamentary candidate but had a long wait because of the war years before being elected. In 1949 and again in 1952 he introduced private member's bills in the UK parliament for the reform of English spelling. He also bought the Loughborough Labour Party's current Building Unity House in 1947.[4]

Follick was born in

Mulay Hafid (Sultan of Morocco). He stood unsuccessfully for the Parliamentary constituencies of Ashford (1929), East Surrey (1931) and Fulham West (1935)[6] before his successful bid for Loughborough in 1945.[1]

Follick was also the founder and proprietor of the Regent School of Languages (destroyed by enemy action, but now part of the

spelling reform (not merely the teaching of reading) should form a principal part".[7] The bequest was finally accepted by the University of Manchester
, and a chair bearing Follick's name is still in existence.

His publications include The Adam’s Lottery, 1919; Influence of English, 1934; Facing Facts, 1935; Efforts of Chance, 1938; English Grammar for Foreigners, 11 editions; and The Twelve Republics, 1952.[1] In his book "Facing Facts", (started in 1932) Follick accurately foretold the aggressions of Germany and the Japanese invasion of China. The book started with the words "Beware Europe" and ended with "You have been warned". The Case for Spelling Reform was published posthumously in 1965 by Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons; on p. v are the phrases "To the schoolchildren of Britain a consistent alphabet; To the nations of the world an international language".

Follick was a member of the

Royal Society of Arts. He was also the inventor and patentee of the Geodok system of teaching geography.[1]

References

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  2. ^ "Historical list of MPs: constituencies beginning with "L", part 4". Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages. Archived from the original on 3 December 2011. Retrieved 8 January 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. ^ Obituary, Time magazine, 22 December 1958
  4. ^ "Booking Rooms". Archived from the original on 2 February 2014.
  5. William D. Rubinstein, Michael Jolles, Hilary L. Rubinstein
    , The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History, Palgrave Macmillan (2011), p. 286
  6. ^ Who's Who of British Members of Parliament, Vol. IV, Stenton & Lees
  7. ^ Spelling Progress Bulletin, Vol. XV, 1975

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Preceded by Member of Parliament for Loughborough
19451955
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