Background
John Scurrah Randles was born on Christmas Day, 25 December, 1875 in Boston, Lincolnshire, the son of a Wesleyan minister, Review Marshall Randles D.D (1826–1904) and Sarah Dewhurst.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
John Scurrah Randles was born on Christmas Day, 25 December, 1875 in Boston, Lincolnshire, the son of a Wesleyan minister, Review Marshall Randles D.D (1826–1904) and Sarah Dewhurst.
He was educated at the Woodhouse Grove School in Lincolnshire and lived at Bristowe Hill, Keswick, Cumbria.
In 1883 Randles married Elizabeth Hartley (? - 1853). An industrialist in the coal and steel business, amongst his positions he was the chairman and managing director of the Moss Bay Hematite Iron and Steel Company and a director of the Workington Iron and the Beckermet Mining Companies. He lost the seat in the 1906 election, but regained it in a by-election later the same year.
Randles was knighted in 1905.
He funded an operating theatre in his wife"s name at Keswick Cottage Hospital. Randles donated money to purchase land for the construction of Kingswood College in Kandy, Ceylon.
He died at his home in Keswick in February 1945 at the age of sixty-nine.
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Randles was elected Member of Parliament for Cockermouth in the 1900 general election. A member of the executive of the National Trust, he gave land on the shores of Derwentwater to the Trust.
He was also a member of Cumberland County Council and was active in setting up the Workington Technical College.
