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Alison Garland

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Alison Vickers Garland (10 April 1862 – 26 September 1939), was a suffragist and British Liberal Party politician.

Background

She was the second daughter of Alfred Stephen Garland, master silversmith and Isabella Priestley of Grovefield, Birkenhead.^[1]

Political career

She rose to prominence in the Liberal Party, firstly as President of Tavistock Women's Liberal Association. In 1904 she became a member of the executive of the Women's National Liberal Federation.^[2] She was also an active member of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, the leading mass organisation campaigning for Votes for Women. In 1908 she joined the Women's Liberals Forward Suffrage Union, a successor organisation to the Union of Practical Suffragists. In 1911, she was part of this group that met with Liberal Government leaders H. H. Asquith and David Lloyd George to discuss the introduction of Votes for Women.^[3]

Despite her prominence in the Liberal Party and in the Suffrage movement, she never secured a candidacy in Tavistock or any promising constituency for a Liberal candidate. She was Liberal candidate for the Portsmouth South Division of Hampshire at the 1918 General Election. She had the support of Liberal Leader H. H. Asquith but not that of the Coalition Prime Minister David Lloyd George who endorsed her Unionist opponent;

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|party = Unionist Party (UK)
|candidate = Herbert Robin Cayzer
|votes = 15,842
|percentage = 68.3
|change = n/a
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|party = Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate = Miss Alison Vickers Garland
|votes = 4,283
|percentage = 18.5
|change = n/a
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = J. Lacey
|votes = 3,070
|percentage = 13.2
|change = n/a
}}{{Election box majority|
|votes = 11,559
|percentage = 49.8
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She was Liberal candidate for the Dartford Division of Kent at the 1922 General Election. Again, she lacked the support of Lloyd George, whose candidate gained the seat;

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|title=General Election 1922: Dartford^[5]
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = National Liberal Party (UK, 1922)
|candidate = George William Symonds Jarrett
|votes = 16,662
|percentage = 49.6
|change = n/a
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = John Edmund Mills
|votes = 14,744
|percentage = 43.9
|change = +6.3
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate = Miss Alison Vickers Garland
|votes = 2,175
|percentage = 6.5
|change = -10.3
}}{{Election box majority|
|votes = 1,918
|percentage = 5.7
|change =
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|votes =
|percentage = 71.2
|change =
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|winner = National Liberal Party (UK, 1922)
|loser = Labour Party (UK)
|swing = n/a
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She did not contest either the 1923 or 1924 General Elections. In July 1924, at the women's international housing congress at Caxton Hall, she identified a lack of tradesmen as a factor in the housing shortage in Britain.^[6] Early in 1929 she was approached by Barrow Liberal Association to be their prospective parliamentary candidate but declined.^[7] She was instead Liberal candidate for the unpromising Warrington Division of Lancashire at the 1929 General Election;

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|title=General Election 1929: Warrington^[8]
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = Charles Dukes
|votes = 21,610
|percentage = 50.6
|change =
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Unionist Party (UK)
|candidate = Noel Barre Goldie
|votes = 18,025
|percentage = 42.2
|change =
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate = Miss Alison Vickers Garland
|votes = 3,070
|percentage = 7.2
|change =
}}{{Election box majority|
|votes = 3,585
|percentage = 8.4
|change =
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|votes =
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|winner = Labour Party (UK)
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She did not stand for parliament again.^[9] However, she continued to speak for the Liberal Party around the country. She was President of the Women's National Liberal Federation from 1934-36. On the 11 May 1937 she was awarded the OBE for political and public services.^[10]

External links

Biography - Women's Suffrage Movement by Elizabeth Crawford - Page 236

Biography - http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/56231

References

1. ^The Times House of Commons 1929
2. ^The Times House of Commons 1929
3. ^Mark Pottle, ‘Garland, Alison Vickers (1862–1939)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 26 Dec 2013
4. ^British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
5. ^British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, F W S Craig
6. ^Mark Pottle, ‘Garland, Alison Vickers (1862–1939)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 26 Dec 2013
7. ^Aberdeen Journal, 18 Feb 1929
8. ^British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig
9. ^British parliamentary election results 1885-1918, Craig, F.W.S.
10. ^The London Gazette, 14 May 1937

3 : 1862 births|1939 deaths|Liberal Party (UK) politicians

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