# Arthur Tiley

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{{Short description|British politician}}
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| name             = Arthur Tiley
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| image            = Arthur Tiley.png
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| caption          = Arthur Tiley by [Walter Bird](/source/Walter_Bird_(photographer)), 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](/source/Bradford_West)
| parliament       = United Kingdom
| majority         = 3159
| predecessor      = ''Constituency created''
| successor        = [Norman Haseldine](/source/Norman_Haseldine)
| term_start       = 26 May 1955
| term_end         = 10 March 1966
| birth_date       = 17 January 1910
| birth_place      = [Bradford](/source/Bradford), [England](/source/England)
| death_date       = 5 June 1994
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| alma_mater       = Grange High School, Bradford
| occupation       = Businessman
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'''Arthur Tiley''' (17 January 1910 – 5 June 1994) was a British businessman and [Conservative](/source/Conservative_Party_(UK)) and [National Liberal](/source/National_Liberal_Party_(UK%2C_1931)) politician. Upon the re-creation of the [Bradford West](/source/Bradford_West) constituency in 1955, Tiley was elected as its [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)). He held the seat until his defeat at the [1966 general election](/source/1966_United_Kingdom_general_election) by [Labour](/source/Labour_Party_(UK))'s [Norman Haseldine](/source/Norman_Haseldine). He was the MP for Bradford during the city's [smallpox outbreak in 1962](/source/Bradford_smallpox_outbreak_of_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](/source/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](/source/YWCA) in Bradford. From 1939 to 1945, he was senior company officer for the [National Fire Service](/source/National_Fire_Service).<ref name=IndependentObit/>

He was [Conservative](/source/Conservative_Party_(UK)) and [National Liberal](/source/National_Liberal_Party_(UK%2C_1931)) politician as he entered the House of Commons in year 1955. Upon the re-creation of the [Bradford West](/source/Bradford_West) constituency in the same year, Tiley was elected as its [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)). He held the seat until his defeat at the [1966 general election](/source/1966_United_Kingdom_general_election) by [Labour](/source/Labour_Party_(UK))'s [Norman Haseldine](/source/Norman_Haseldine).<ref name=IndependentObit/>

He was the MP for Bradford during the city's [smallpox outbreak in 1962](/source/Bradford_smallpox_outbreak_of_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](/source/Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire) in 1972.<ref name=IndependentObit/>

==Death==
Tiley died on 5 June 1994.<ref name=IndependentObit/>

== References ==
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== External links ==
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Category:1910 births
Category:1994 deaths
Category:Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Category:UK MPs 1955–1959
Category:UK MPs 1959–1964
Category:UK MPs 1964–1966
Category:Members of Parliament for Bradford West
Category:English justices of the peace
Category:British businesspeople in the insurance industry
Category:20th-century English businesspeople

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