{{Short description|British politician}} {{distinguish|Arthur Tilley (disambiguation){{!}}Arthur Tilley}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2016}} {{Use British English|date=August 2016}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Arthur Tiley | honorific_suffix = | image = Arthur Tiley.png | alt = | caption = Arthur Tiley by Walter Bird, 1966.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Arthur Tiley - National Portrait Gallery|url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw236713/Arthur-Tiley|website=www.npg.org.uk|language=en|access-date=2020-05-02}}</ref> | constituency_MP = Bradford West | parliament = United Kingdom | majority = 3159 | predecessor = ''Constituency created'' | successor = Norman Haseldine | term_start = 26 May 1955 | term_end = 10 March 1966 | birth_date = 17 January 1910 | birth_place = Bradford, England | death_date = 5 June 1994 | death_place = | spouse = | party = Conservative and National Liberal | relations = | children = | alma_mater = Grange High School, Bradford | occupation = Businessman | profession = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Arthur Tiley''' (17 January 1910 – 5 June 1994) was a British businessman and Conservative and National Liberal politician. Upon the re-creation of the Bradford West constituency in 1955, Tiley was elected as its Member of Parliament. He held the seat until his defeat at the 1966 general election by Labour's Norman Haseldine. He was the MP for Bradford during the city's smallpox outbreak in 1962.
==Early life and education== Arthur Tiley was born in Bradford on 17 January 1910.<ref name=IndependentObit>{{Cite web|title=Obituary: Arthur Tiley|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-arthur-tiley-1413075.html|date=11 July 1994|website=The Independent|language=en|access-date=1 May 2020}}</ref> He was educated at the Grange High School in Bradford,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Tiley, Arthur, (17 Jan. 1910–5 June 1994)|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-175885|website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO|language=en|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u175885|access-date=2 May 2020}}</ref> and is best known as a business professional.{{citation needed|date=February 2024}}
==Career== Tiley had a career in business before entering politics. Between 1934 and 1950, he was treasurer of the Young Women's Christian Association in Bradford. From 1939 to 1945, he was senior company officer for the National Fire Service.<ref name=IndependentObit/>
He was Conservative and National Liberal politician as he entered the House of Commons in year 1955. Upon the re-creation of the Bradford West constituency in the same year, Tiley was elected as its Member of Parliament. He held the seat until his defeat at the 1966 general election by Labour's Norman Haseldine.<ref name=IndependentObit/>
He was the MP for Bradford during the city's smallpox outbreak in 1962.<ref name=Hampshire>{{Cite book|last=Hampshire|first=James|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hteGDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA166|title=Citizenship and Belonging: Immigration and the Politics of Demographic Governance in Postwar Britain|date=2005|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-0-230-51052-4|pages=166|language=en}}</ref><ref name="Bivins">{{Cite book|last=Bivins|first=Roberta E.|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7jlICgAAQBAJ&pg=PA147|title=Contagious Communities: Medicine, Migration, and the NHS in Post-war Britain|date=2015|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-872528-2|pages=147|language=en|chapter=3. Smallpox, 'Social Threats", and Citizenship, 1961-1966}}</ref> Following the outbreak, his speech in parliament included details of Bradford's losses in its textile trade.<ref name=Bivins2007>{{Cite journal|last=Bivins|first=Roberta|date=1 November 2007|title="The People Have No More Love Left for the Commonwealth": Media, Migration and Identity in the 1961–62 British Smallpox Outbreak|journal=Immigrants & Minorities|volume=25|issue=3|pages=263–289|doi=10.1080/02619280802407376|issn=0261-9288|pmc=2899858|pmid=20622927}}</ref>
From 1964 to 1966, he was opposition spokesman on Pensions and National Insurance.<ref name=IndependentObit/>
His later career focused on his insurance business and involved himself in many charities. Although he was known as a politician, he was a devout Christian, and would like to be remembered as a religious man.<ref name=IndependentObit/>
==Personal life== In 1936, he married Mary Tankard and they had one son and one daughter. He was appointed a CBE in 1972.<ref name=IndependentObit/>
==Death== Tiley died on 5 June 1994.<ref name=IndependentObit/>
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