Wilfred Wellock

Wilfred Wellock (2 January 1879 – 22 July 1972)[1] was a socialist Gandhian and sometime Labour politician and MP.

Life

He was imprisoned as a conscientious objector in the First World War.

He was elected at Member of Parliament (MP) for Member of Parliament (MP) for Stourbridge at a by-election in February 1927, having unsuccessfully contested the seat in 1923 and 1924. He was re-elected in 1929, but at the 1931 general election he was defeated by the Conservative Party candidate. Wellock stood again at the 1935 election, but did not regain his seat.[2]

Wellock was an active member of both the No More War Movement[3] and the Peace Pledge Union.[4] He was a prolific pamphleteer.

Wellock's work was admired by Aldous Huxley, who stated in his book Science, Liberty and Peace that Wellock and Ralph Borsodi's work constituted a "tiny piece of decentralist leaven" within the "whole large lump of contemporary society".[5]

Publications

References

  1. "House of Commons constituencies beginning with "S" (part 5)". Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages. Retrieved 2009-05-11.
  2. Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 503. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
  3. Pugh, Michael (2012). Liberal Internationalism: The Interwar Movement for Peace in Britain. London: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 94. ISBN 0-230-53763-4.
  4. Barker, Rachel (1982). Conscience, Government, And War: Conscientious Objection in Great Britain, 1939-45. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. p. 100.
  5. Huxley, Aldous (1946). Science, Liberty and Peace. London: Chatto and Windus. p. 43.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Douglas Pielou
Member of Parliament for Stourbridge
19271931
Succeeded by
Robert Morgan


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