John Bamford Slack Explained
Sir John Bamford Slack (11 July 1857 – 11 February 1909) was a British politician, member of the Liberal Party and Methodist lay preacher.
Life
Slack was born in Ripley, Derbyshire in 1857. His Liberal Wesleyan Methodist parents were Mary Ann (born Bamford) and Thomas Slack. His maternal grandfather made bricks and his younger sister was the temperance activist Agnes Elizabeth Slack.[1]
He was elected to the House of Commons for the constituency of St Albans at the 1904 St Albans by-election,[2] replacing Vicary Gibbs.
In 1905, he introduced a bill for women's suffrage, which was talked out.[3] [4] [5]
He received a knighthood.[6]
He married Alice Maud Mary Bretherton (died 1932), who after his death; became the first wife of Sir Banister Flight Fletcher.[7]
References
Notes and References
- Eve Colpus, ‘Slack, Agnes Elizabeth (1858–1946)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2012 accessed 10 Aug 2017
- https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E07E2D91E3AE733A25757C1A9649C946597D6CF The New York Times, Sunday, 14 February 1904, Page 4, 106 words. LIBERALS WIN IN ELECTION.; J. Bamford Slack Sent to Parliament by Hertfordshire Constituency.
- https://books.google.com/books?id=Wo89DfZ-T6AC&pg=PA198 The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928 - Google Books Result
- https://books.google.com/books?id=MnMF_H5V9qwC&pg=PA71 Purvis, June. Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography - Google Books Result
- https://books.google.com/books?id=Wo89DfZ-T6AC&pg=PA198 Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928 - Google Books Result
- https://books.google.com/books?id=WG2ust7J9RcC&pg=PA75 Jeremy, David J. Religion, Business, and Wealth in Modern Britain - Google Books Result
- http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp82716 National Portrait Gallery - Alice Maud Mary Bretherton
