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Richard Winfrey

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Office
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Sir Richard Winfrey (5 August 1858 – 18 April 1944) was a British Liberal politician, newspaper publisher and campaigner for agricultural rights. He served as Member of Parliament for South West Norfolk, 1906–1923, and for Gainsborough, 1923–1924.

Biography

Winfrey was born at Long Sutton in Lincolnshire on 5 August 1858. He married Annie Lucy Pattinson of Ruskington, Lincolnshire, in 1897. His wife's brothers, Samuel Pattinson (1870–1942) and Sir Robert Pattinson (1872–1954), were later both Liberal MPs; Samuel for Horncastle from 1922 to 1924 and Robert for Grantham from 1922 to 1923.^[1] In religion Winfrey was a Congregationalist.^[2]

He died on 18 April 1944 in Castor House, Castor, Peterborough.

Publishing

In 1887, Richard Winfrey purchased the Spalding Guardian, a local newspaper that was to provide the basis for the Winfrey family's newspaper interests. His next purchase was the Lynn News; he also started the North Cambs Echo and bought the Peterborough Advertiser. During World War II Winfrey's newspaper interests began to be passed over to his son, Richard Pattinson Winfrey (1902–1985) who had himself unsuccessfully stood in the Holland with Boston by-election in 1924.^[3] In 1947, under the direction of Pat Winfrey, the family's newspaper titles were consolidated to form the East Midland Allied Press, now the emap media group.^[4]

Politics

Winfrey first contested South West Norfolk as a Liberal at the general election of 1895

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and tried again in 1900.

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He was elected Liberal MP for South West Norfolk at the 1906 Liberal landslide election

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and he held the seat

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with the help of the Coalition Government coupon

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until 1923. He also represented Gainsborough from 1923-24.

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His first career had been as a chemist, and he steered the Poisons and Pharmacy Act 1908 through Parliament.

Office

Between 1906 and 1910, Winfrey served as Parliamentary Secretary to Earl Carrington and Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture from 1916-1918.

In August 1914 as Mayor of Peterborough he was one of the last to read the Riot Act after anti-German disturbances.^[7]

Winfrey was knighted in the 1914 New Year's Honours. He also served as a Justice of the Peace. He was Chairman of the Lincolnshire and Norfolk Small Holdings Association, Ltd^[8] and sometime Chairman of the National Educational Association.^[9] At its foundation in 1906 he was Treasurer of the Eastern Counties Agricultural Labourers & Small Holders Union which in 1920 became the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers.

References

1. ^Northamptonshire Past and Present, Northamptonshire Record Society, 1992, p. 317.
2. ^Stephen Koss, Nonconformity in Modern British Politics; Archon Books, 1975, p. 135.
3. ^The Times, 23 September 1985.
4. ^EMAP plc - Company History.
5. ^¹²³⁴British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig).
6. ^¹Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. {{ISBN|0-900178-06-X}}.
7. ^Part 2: 'Fen men to the marrow' who have served us down through the years - Peterborough Today
8. ^Who was Who, OUP 2007.
9. ^The Liberal Year Book, National Liberal Federation, Liberal Central Association (Great Britain); Liberal Publication Dept., 1933, p. 21.

External links

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