Progressive Party (London)
The Progressive Party was a political party aligned to the Liberal Party that contested municipal elections in the United Kingdom.
History
It was founded in 1888 by a group of Liberals and leaders of the
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Leaders
- 1889: Thomas Farrer[1]
- 1890: James Stuart[1]
- 1892: Charles Harrison[1]
- 1898: Thomas McKinnon Wood[1]
- 1908: John Benn[1]
- 1918: John Scott Lidgett[1]
Members
- Henrietta Adler
- Arthur Acland Allen
- Joseph Allen Baker
- Sir John Benn
- Frank Briant
- Charles Roden Buxton
- William Augustus Casson
- Henry Chancellor
- James William Cleland
- Ben Cooper
- George Cooper
- Sir Edwin Cornwall
- Sir Evan Cotton
- Rosamond Davenport Hill
- Willoughby Dickinson
- Garnham Edmonds
- Maurice de Forest
- Hugh Fullerton
- James Gilbert
- Harold Glanville
- Harry Gosling
- George Hardy
- Sir Percy Harris
- Stewart Headlam
- John Stanley Holmes
- Emslie Horniman
- Richard Lambert
- Hugh Lea
- John Scott Lidgett
- Edward Martell
- Charles McCurdy
- John McDougall
- Thomas McKinnon Wood
- Miriam Moses
- Oswald Partington, later Lord Doverdale
- Alfred Salter
- Alfred Henry Scott
- Edward Smallwood
- Evan Spicer
- Frederick Verney
- Graham Wallas
- David Waterlow
- Walter Baldwyn Yates
- Alfred William Yeo
London Reform Union
In 1892 the London Reform Union was formed as the propaganda arm of the party.[2]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e f Gibbon, Gwilym; Bell, Reginald William (1939). History of the London County Council, 1889-1939. London: Macmillan. p. 668.
- ^ McBriar, A.M. (1962). Fabian socialism and English politics, 1884-1918. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 197.
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