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Charles McCurdy

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Background
Career
Coalition government Liberal reunion Electoral record
References
External links

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Charles Albert McCurdy (13 March 1870 – 10 November 1941) was a British Liberal Member of Parliament and minister in the Lloyd George Coalition Government. He was made a member of the Privy Council in 1920.

Background

McCurdy was educated at Loughborough Grammar School and Pembroke College, Cambridge.^[1]

Career

He then became a barrister. He was elected Member of Parliament for Northampton, then a two-member constituency, in 1910. He was returned in 1918 when it was reduced to a single-member seat, his former Liberal co-member Hastings Lees-Smith having sought election elsewhere and joined the Labour Party.

Coalition government

He was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food Control from 1919 to 1920 and then Minister of Food Control in 1920. After the Ministry of Food Control was abolished in April 1921, he was appointed Coalition Liberal Chief Whip (officially 'Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury') in succession to Frederick Guest. Guest had held the position during the 1918 seat negotiations with the Unionists. Unlike Guest, McCurdy was more concerned with strengthening the Liberals part in the Coalition and took a much tougher line with the Unionists. A junior Unionist whip Robert Sanders, wrote in his diary that McCurdy was "a particularly bad-mannered fellow...the reverse...of Guest". McCurdy favoured a general election in January 1922 and the formation of a Centre Party made up of Liberals, moderate Conservatives and moderate Labour MPs. In March 1922, McCurdy wrote to Lloyd George claiming that one hundred Unionist MPs would defect if a Centre Party was formed. Lloyd George, however, decided to stay with the Coalition. He left office with Lloyd George when the Unionists ended the coalition in October 1922.

Liberal reunion

After the coalition ended, McCurdy favoured Liberal reunion. He was influential in drawing up the Liberals' manifesto for the 1923 general election, moving it further in a free trade direction. However, he was not returned at that election. He died in November 1941, aged 71, a month before his former co-member for Northampton, Hastings Lees-Smith.

McCurdy's niece, Margaret Wingfield, was an influential member of the Liberal Party, and eventually its President.

Electoral record

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|party =Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate =Guy Victor Baring
|votes =1,322
|percentage =51.0
|change =-10.3
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party =Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate =Charles Albert McCurdy
|votes =1,272
|percentage =49.0
|change =+10.3
}}{{Election box majority|
|votes =50
|percentage =2.0
|change =-20.6
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|votes =
|percentage =87.0
|change =+5.4
}}{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner =Conservative Party (UK)
|swing =-10.3
}}{{Election box end}}{{Election box begin |
|title=General Election January 1910: Northampton^[2]
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|party = Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate =Hastings Bertrand Lees-Smith
|votes = 5,398
|percentage = 23.3
|change =
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate =Charles Albert McCurdy
|votes = 5,289
|percentage = 22.9
|change =
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Richard Rouse Boughton Orlebar
|votes = 4,569
|percentage = 19.8
|change =
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Frederick Gorell Barnes
|votes = 4,464
|percentage = 19.3
|change =
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Social Democratic Federation
|candidate = James Gribble
|votes = 1,792
|percentage = 7.7
|change =
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Social Democratic Federation
|candidate = Henry Quelch
|votes = 1,617
|percentage = 7.0
|change =
}}{{Election box majority|
|votes = 720
|percentage = 3.1
|change =
}}{{Election box turnout|
|votes =
|percentage = 92.7
|change =
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|winner = Liberal Party (UK)
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}}{{Election box end}}{{Election box begin |
|title=General Election 1918: Northampton^[3]
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|party = Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate =Charles Albert McCurdy
|votes = 18,010
|percentage = 62.7
|change =
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = Walter Halls
|votes = 10,735
|percentage = 37.3
|change = n/a
}}{{Election box majority|
|votes = 7,275
|percentage = 25.4
|change =
}}{{Election box turnout|
|votes =
|percentage = 62.5
|change =
}}{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Liberal Party (UK)
|swing = n/a
}}{{Election box end}}{{Election box begin | title=Northampton by-election, 1920 ^[3] }}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Coalition Liberal
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|votes = 16,650
|percentage = 55.6
|change = -7.1
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = Margaret Grace Bondfield
|votes = 13,279
|percentage = 44.4
|change = +7.1
}}{{Election box majority|
|votes = 3,371
|percentage = 11.2
|change =-14.2
}}{{Election box turnout|
|votes =
|percentage = 67.1
|change = +4.6
}}{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Coalition Liberal
|swing = -7.1
}}{{election box end}}{{Election box begin |
|title=General Election 1922: Northampton^[3]
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = National Liberal Party (UK, 1922)
|candidate =Rt Hon. Charles Albert McCurdy
|votes = 19,974
|percentage = 52.3
|change = -3.3
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = Margaret Grace Bondfield
|votes = 14,498
|percentage = 37.9
|change = -6.5
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate = Henry Harvey Vivian
|votes = 3,753
|percentage = 9.8
|change = n/a
}}{{Election box majority|
|votes = 5,476
|percentage = 14.4
|change = +3.2
}}{{Election box turnout|
|votes =
|percentage = 85.5
|change =
}}{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = National Liberal Party (UK, 1922)
|swing = +1.6
}}{{Election box end}}{{Election box begin |
|title=General Election 1923: Northampton ^[3]
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = Margaret Grace Bondfield
|votes = 15,556
|percentage = 40.5
|change = +2.6
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Unionist Party (UK)
|candidate = John Veasy Collier
|votes = 11,520
|percentage = 30.0
|change = n/a
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate =Rt Hon. Charles Albert McCurdy
|votes = 11,342
|percentage = 29.5
|change = n/a
}}{{Election box majority|
|votes = 4,036
|percentage = 10.5
|change =
}}{{Election box turnout|
|votes =
|percentage = 84.3
|change =
}}{{Election box gain with party link|
|winner = Labour Party (UK)
|loser = Liberal Party (UK)
|swing = n/a
}}{{Election box end}}

References

1. ^{{acad|id=MRDY888CA|name=McCurdy, Charles Albert}}
2. ^¹British Parliamentary Election Results, 1885-1918, FWS Craig
3. ^¹²³British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig

The Impact of Labour, 1920 - 1924 (Cambridge University Press, 1971) by Maurice Cowling.
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External links

{{Internet Archive author |sname=Charles Albert McCurdy}}
{{Hansard-contribs | mr-charles-mccurdy | Charles McCurdy }}

{{S-start}}{{s-par|uk}}{{s-bef| before = Herbert Paul
John Greenwood Shipman}}{{s-ttl| title = Member of Parliament for Northampton
| years = January 1910 – 1923
| with = Hastings Lees-Smith, 1910–1918}}{{s-aft| after = Margaret Bondfield}}{{s-off}}{{s-bef| before = George Henry Roberts}}{{s-ttl| title = Minister of Food Control
| years = 1920 – 1921}}{{s-non| reason = Office abolished}}{{s-bef| before = Frederick Guest}}{{s-ttl| title = Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury
| years = 1921 – 1922
| with = Leslie Wilson}}{{s-aft| after = Leslie Wilson}}{{S-end}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:McCurdy, Charles}}

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