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John Turner Walton Newbold (8 May 1888–20 February 1943), generally known as Walton Newbold, was the first of the four Communist Party of Great Britain members to be elected as MPs in the United Kingdom. BiographyEarly yearsJohn Turner Walton Newbold was born in Culcheth, Lancashire, on 8 May 1888, and was educated at Buxton College and the University of Manchester. On leaving university, Newbold lectured in history and politics, and was engaged in industrial and economic research.[1] In 1908, he joined the Fabian Society, connected with the Labour Party, and then the Independent Labour Party (ILP) in 1910. In line with the ILP's pacifist position on World War I, he joined the No Conscription Fellowship, and was a conscientious objector, although he was in any case found physically unfit for military service. He did a great deal of research into the arms trade and its international connections in the late 19th/early 20th centuries.[2] Political careerIn 1917 Newbold joined the Labour educational Plebs' League and the British Socialist Party. By 1920, he was a committed communist, stating "my loyalty, at any rate, is now - as it has been for two and a half years - first and foremost to the position of the Third International". In 1921 he resigned from the ILP and joined the Communist Party of Great Britain, becoming a member of its first central committee. In the 1922 general election, Newbold was elected to represent the Motherwell constituency in the House of Commons. He received the support of the Labour Party, but unlike many other Communist candidates, including Shapurji Saklatvala who was elected in the same general election, he stood under the label "Communist". Additionally, he was refused permission to take the Labour whip and to sit with the Labour group. As such, he is sometimes counted as the first Communist MP in Britain, although others cite Cecil L'Estrange Malone, who switched from the Liberal Party in 1920, as the first Communist MP. Saklatvala was accepted into the Labour Party's parliamentary caucus but while Newbold applied for the same he was rejected.[3] This did not stop Saklatvala and Newbold from joint activity, however, and the pair attempted to raise the demands of the unemployed and the cause of cheap housing and lower rents whenever possible.[4] Newbold wound up being suspended from the House in May 1923 over his actions with respect to the Curzon ultimatum during the French occupation of the Ruhr.[4] Newbold was sometimes seen as ineffective in Parliament, mocked by many other MPs for his old and frequently dirty clothing, but focused on producing propaganda for the Communist Party. He lost his seat in the 1923 general election, after just over a year in Parliament. Increasingly disillusioned with communism, he resigned from the party in 1924 and rejoined the Labour Party. In 1928 Newbold joined the Social Democratic Federation, and edited its journal, Social Democrat, from 1929 until 1931, when he supported the National Labour split from Labour. He stood unsuccessfully as the Labour candidate in Epping in the 1929 general election. In the same year he was appointed to the Macmillan Enquiry into the operation of banking in the UK. Death and legacyNewbold died in February 1943, aged 54. List of works
Footnotes1. ^Who's Who 1938 2. ^{{cite book|last1=Newbold|first1=J T Walton|title=How Europe Armed for War (1871 - 1914)|date=1916|publisher=Blackfriars Press Ltd|pages=108}} 3. ^James Klugmann, History of the Communist Party of Great Britain: Volume One: Formation and Early Years, 1919–1924. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1968; pg. 192. 4. ^1 Klugmann, History of the Communist Party of Great Britain: Volume 1, pg. 193. Sources consulted
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| title = Member of Parliament for Motherwell | years = 1922–1923 | before = Robert Nelson | after = Hugh Ferguson }}{{s-media}}{{succession box | before= Tom Kennedy? | title= Editor of the Social Democrat | years= 1929–1931 | after= William Sampson Cluse}}{{s-end}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Newbold, Walton}} 11 : 1888 births|1943 deaths|British conscientious objectors|British Socialist Party members|Communist Party of Great Britain members|Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies|People educated at Buxton College|UK MPs 1922–23|People from Warrington (district)|People from Lancashire (before 1974)|Communist Party of Great Britain MPs |
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