Background
DUCKWORTH, James was born in 1840.
DUCKWORTH, James was born in 1840.
Privately.
Chairman, J. Duckworth, Limited., and of Belfield, Limited. Director Boots, Limited. Mayor, of Rochdale, 1891-1892-1893.
Contested Warwick and Leamington, 1895. Delegate of United Methodist Free Churches to Ecumenical Conference at Washington, 1891.
President United Methodist Free’ Churches, 1894.
Member of Parliament Radical Middleton Division. Lancashire, 1897-1900. Proprietor of the Cheshire County News, and Manchester Weekly Chronicle.
Cartulary-register 1908. Alderman; Member of Parliament (Liberal) Stockport since 1906. Justice of the Peace Rochdale.
Liberal.
Club: National Liberal.
Spouse 1882, Ellen Matilda,daughter of late Thomas Jully, Bristol.