{{use dmy dates|date=April 2018}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Cornelius (Charles) Jesson | image = | birth_date = {{birth date|1862|6|1|df=yes}} | birth_place = Leicester | death_date = {{death date and age|1926|9|21|1862|6|1|df=yes}} | constituency_MP = Walthamstow West | parliament = United Kingdom | successor = Valentine McEntee | term_start = 1918 | term_end = 1922 | majority = 3,163 (22.3%) | party = National Liberal }} '''Cornelius (Charles) Jesson''' (1 June 1862 – 21 September 1926)<ref name="rayment-hc">{{Rayment-hc|w|1|date=June 2012}}</ref> was a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Walthamstow West from 1918 to 1922.
Born in Leicester,<ref name="Jesson Family biographies">{{Cite web |url=http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/jessonfamily/biographies.htm#ccj |title=Jesson Biographies: Cornelius "Charles" JESSON MP (1862-1926) |access-date=29 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303200120/http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/jessonfamily/biographies.htm#ccj |archive-date=3 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Jesson was the son of a boot and shoe manufacturer.<ref name="debrett-1922">{{Cite book |last=Hesilridge |first=Arthur G. M. |title=Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1922 |url=https://archive.org/stream/debrettshouseo1922londuoft#page/n221/mode/1up |year=1922 |publisher=Dean & Son |location=London |page=88 }}</ref> He trained as a musician and was elected in a 1906 by-election to the London County Council, representing the Walworth division of Newington. Jesson represented Walworth on the LCC until he stood down in 1919.
Jesson also became an organiser for the Amalgamated Society of Musicians<ref name="debrett-1922" /> (later to become the Musicians' Union). The Musicians' Union supported the National Democratic and Labour Party in the 1918 general election and Jesson was elected for Walthamstow West<ref>{{London Gazette |issue =31147 |date=28 January 1919 |page=1364 |city=London }}</ref> as one of nine NDP MPs supporting the Coalition Government of David Lloyd George.
The NDP broke up in 1922 when its leader George Nicoll Barnes retired from Parliament, and along with the remaining other NDP MPs Jesson joined the National Liberal Party. He contested Walthamstow West at that year's general election as a National Liberal, but was defeated by the Labour Party candidate Valentine McEntee and did not stand for Parliament again.<ref name="craig1918-1949">{{Cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |authorlink= F. W. S. Craig |title=British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 |orig-date=1969 |edition=3rd |year=1983 |publisher= Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn= 0-900178-06-X }}</ref>
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==External links== * {{Hansard-contribs | mr-charles-jesson | Charles Jesson }} * [http://www.maberly.name/Jessonindex.htm Jesson family tree]
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