Ernest Claude Meysey-Thompson MP

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Date:1859 - 1944 (c.)

Description:Meysey-Thompson (1859-1944) was a Justice of the Peace and also MP for Handsworth from 1906 to 1922. Apart from being an MP his principal career was in the army. He was a Major in the Hussars and became a Lieutenant Colonel of the 175th Staffordshire Brigade.

Thompson won the important post-war 1918 General Election as a Coalition Unionist candidate.

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Politics Handsworth 1914 - 1919 (World War I)

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Donor ref:LSH/ B'ham Parliamentary Elections 1918-22 LFF76.8 (14/5482)

Source: Local Studies & History Department , Birmingham Central Library

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