Charles Summersby

Charles Harold Summersby (1882 – 13 August 1961) was a British draper and Liberal National politician.

Family and education

Summersby was the son of the Reverend B J Summersby, a Congregational minister from Oxfordshire. He was educated locally until the age of fourteen when he left school and moved to London to serve a four-year apprenticeship in the drapery business.^[1] He and his wife had two sons and a daughter.^[2]

Career

After his apprenticeship Summersby became a buyer for the Derry & Toms department store in Kensington and in 1912 started his own business. By 1931 he was the owner of large shop in Muswell Hill.^[1]

Politics

Local politics

Summersby was elected to Hornsey Borough Council in 1921 ^[1] and was Mayor of Hornsey from 1930 to 1931 ^[3] He was also later a member of Middlesex County Council for Harringay. He won a by-election there on 28 January 1936 standing as a Municipal Reform Party candidate by 485 votes to the 327 gained by his Labour opponent Samuel Campbell. There was only a small turnout because the date coincided with the funeral of King George V who had died on 20 January.^[4] Summersby also served as Justice of the Peace.^[2]

Parliament

Summersby was selected to fight Shoreditch at the 1931 general election as a Liberal National and defeated the sitting Labour MP, Ernest Thurtle.^[5] While in the House of Commons Summersby served as a member of the Parliamentary Air Committee.^[6] He did not seek re-election at the 1935 general election and was replaced as National Liberal candidate by Mr Somerset Stopford Brooke,^[7] a stock broker, and former Liberal candidate for Guildford in 1929, who was the son of the Liberal MP for Bow and Bromley from 1906 to 1910.^[8] Summersby must have known that without the effect of the crisis of 1931 which had helped propel him into Parliament, his seat would be highly vulnerable to Labour ^[9] and Stopford Brooke, could not hold the seat against Ernest Thurtle's renewed challenge.^[8]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c The Times House of Commons 1931; Politico’s Publishing 2003, p 26
^ ^a ^b Who was Who, OUP 2007
^ Who was Who, OUP 2007
^ The Times, 30 January 1936
^ The Times House of Commons 1931; Politico’s Publishing 2003, p 26
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 21 May 2011. Retrieved 12 January 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ The Times, 23 October 1935, p16
^ ^a ^b The Times House of Commons 1935; Politico’s Publishing 2003, p42
^ Tom Stannage, Baldwin Thwarts the Opposition: The British General Election of 1935; Routledge, 1980 p223

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Charles Summersby

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Ernest Thurtle	Member of Parliament for Shoreditch 1931 – 1935	Succeeded by Ernest Thurtle

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[ReferenceA-1] The Times House of Commons 1931; Politico’s Publishing 2003, p 26

[Who_was_Who,_OUP_2007-2] Who was Who, OUP 2007

[3] Who was Who, OUP 2007

[4] The Times, 30 January 1936

[5] The Times House of Commons 1931; Politico’s Publishing 2003, p 26

[6] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 21 May 2011. Retrieved 12 January 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[7] The Times, 23 October 1935, p16

[ReferenceB-8] The Times House of Commons 1935; Politico’s Publishing 2003, p42

[9] Tom Stannage, Baldwin Thwarts the Opposition: The British General Election of 1935; Routledge, 1980 p223

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