William Albert Robinson

{{Short description|British politician (1877–1949)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2016}} {{Use British English|date=November 2016}} {{infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = William Albert Robinson | honorific_suffix = | office = [[Member of Parliament]] for [[St Helens (UK Parliament constituency)|St Helens]] | term_start = 14 November 1935 | term_end = 15 June 1945 | predecessor = [[Richard Austin Spencer]] | successor = [[Hartley Shawcross]] | birth_date = 1877 | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|1949|12|31|1877|df=yes}} | death_place = | party = [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] }} '''William Albert Robinson''' (1877 – 31 December 1949) was a British [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] politician who served as the [[Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[St Helens (UK Parliament constituency)|St Helens]] from his election at the [[1935 United Kingdom general election|1935 general election]] until the [[1945 United Kingdom general election|1945 election]].<ref name="craig1918-1949" />

==Career== Robinson had previously fought [[Liverpool Exchange]] at the [[1929 United Kingdom general election|1929 general election]].<ref name="craig1918-1949" /> He was elected [[Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[St Helens (UK Parliament constituency)|St Helens]] at the [[1935 United Kingdom general election|1935 general election]] and served until the [[1945 United Kingdom general election|1945 election]].<ref name="craig1918-1949" />

He was an active member of the [[National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers]], for which he had served as Political Secretary.<ref name= "DDT">{{cite news |title=REVERSAL SOUGHT |work=Derby Daily Telegraph |date=10 April 1939 |accessdate=7 November 2015 |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000521/19390410/097/0008| via = [[British Newspaper Archive]]|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

==Personal life== Robinson died on 31 December 1949.<ref name="1950Obit">{{cite news |title=Former M.P. Dies. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/76284435/former-mp-dies/ |access-date=22 April 2021 |work=[[The Observer]] |date=1 January 1950 |pages=5}}</ref>

== References == {{reflist  |refs =

<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 |pages = 176, 230 }}</ref> }}

== External links == * {{Hansard-contribs | mr-william-robinson | William Robinson }}

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