Clyde Wilson (politician)

{{Short description|British Conservative Party politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use British English|date=August 2016}} '''Clyde Tabor Wilson''' (21 September 1889 – 13 November 1971)<ref name=obit>{{cite news |title=Obituary: Mr C. T. Wilson |newspaper=The Times|location=London |page=14 |date=15 November 1971}}</ref><ref name="rayment-hc">{{cite web |title=House of Commons constituencies beginning with "W" (part 3) |work=Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Wcommons3.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181024215417/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Wcommons3.htm |access-date=2009-04-27 |url-status=usurped |archive-date=24 October 2018}}</ref> was a British [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] [[politician]].

Born in [[Birkenhead]] on [[Merseyside]], he moved to London to study law and was [[call to the bar|called to the bar]] at the [[Inner Temple]] in 1913.<ref name=obit />

From 1925 to 1935 he sat as a [[Municipal Reform Party]] councillor representing [[Wandsworth Central (UK Parliament constituency)|Wandsworth Central]] on the [[London County Council]]. The Municipal Reformers were allied to the parliamentary Conservatives.<ref>{{cite book |last=Jackson |first=W Eric |year=1965 |title=Achievement. A Short History of the LCC |publisher=[[Longmans]] |location=London |page=270}}</ref>

At the [[1931 United Kingdom general election|1931 general election]], he was elected [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|member of parliament]] (MP) for [[Liverpool West Toxteth (UK Parliament constituency)|Liverpool West Toxteth]], winning the seat with a large majority over the sitting [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] MP, [[Joseph Gibbins]]. This was Wilson's second attempt to enter [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Parliament]] – he had unsuccessfully contested the [[1929 United Kingdom general election|1929 general election]] in the Labour-held London constituency of [[Lambeth North (UK Parliament constituency)|Lambeth North]]. In 1934 he was appointed [[Recorder (judge)|Recorder]] of Birkenhead.<ref name=obit /> He served less than four years in the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]], [[resignation from the British House of Commons|resigning his seat]] in 1935 to become a [[Metropolitan Police]] magistrate. At the resulting [[1935 Liverpool West Toxteth by-election|by-election in July 1935]], Gibbins regained the seat.<ref name="craig1918-1949">{{cite book

| title = British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 | edition = 3rd | last = Craig | first = F. W. S. | year = 1983 | author-link = F. W. S. Craig | orig-year = First published 1969 | publisher = Parliamentary Research Services | location = Chichester | pages = 35, 183 | isbn = 0-900178-06-X }}</ref>

Wilson retired from his post as magistrate in 1962.<ref name=obit /><ref>{{cite news |title=Senior Magistrate Retiring |newspaper=The Times|location=London |page=8 |date=8 May 1962}}</ref> He died at his home in [[Eastbourne]] in 1971, aged 82.<ref>{{cite news |title=Deaths |newspaper=The Times|location=London |page=1 |date=15 November 1971}}</ref>

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