Frederick Gould

June 28, 1879 (age 91)

Midsomer Norton

He came from a mining family with a strong Methodist background. He left school at 12 and began work as a stable boy. A few years later he took a job as a "rounder" Ollie Edwards"s Boot Factory in Midsomer Norton. Emma was descended from the playwright John Gay. He became local secretary of the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives. In 1908 he became an unpaid organiser for the Independent Labour Party and started several branches. He successfully stood as Labour Member of Parliament at the General Election on 6 December 1923. He lost the seat in the election of 1924, but regained it in 1929. He become a parliamentary private secretary in 1930, but lost the seat in Labour’s electoral defeat in 1931. At that point his union decided that it wanted him to fight a seat with a larger proportion of footwear workers, and he was to be defeated at the 1935 election in Leicester East. He received the Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1945. He died on 23 February 1971.

Frederick Gould

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Gould was born in Midsomer Norton. His father had been one of the founders of the Somerset Miners" Association.

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He came from a mining family with a strong Methodist background. He left school at 12 and began work as a stable boy. A few years later he took a job as a "rounder" Ollie Edwards"s Boot Factory in Midsomer Norton.

Emma was descended from the playwright John Gay.

He became local secretary of the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives. In 1908 he became an unpaid organiser for the Independent Labour Party and started several branches.

He successfully stood as Labour Member of Parliament at the General Election on 6 December 1923. He lost the seat in the election of 1924, but regained it in 1929.

He become a parliamentary private secretary in 1930, but lost the seat in Labour’s electoral defeat in 1931.

At that point his union decided that it wanted him to fight a seat with a larger proportion of footwear workers, and he was to be defeated at the 1935 election in Leicester East. He received the Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1945. He died on 23 February 1971.

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In 1910 he won a seat on Radstock Urban District Council.

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32nd United Kingdom Parliament. 35th United Kingdom Parliament.

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teacher:: Ronald Gould

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Officer of the Order of the British Empire