Background
Tickler was the son of George Tickler, a miller from Withern in Lincolnshire.
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Thomas Tickler
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He established his own fruit growers and preservers business, serving as Managing Director (Doctor of Medicine) of T.G. Tickler Limited, which operated from Grimsby and Southall, and was also Doctor of Medicine of Heathcote Pottery Limited of Swadlincote in Derbyshire. Doughty had held the seat for almost 20 years, with a short break in 1910. From a small grocery business established in 1877, Tickler soon ran one of the largest factories in Grimsby, producing jam and marmalade.
‘Ticklers Fruit Growers & Preservers’ was taken over in the late 1950s.
At the outbreak of World War I, Ticklers secured a contract with the government to supply front lines with plum-and-apple jam —– a contract worth £1m between 1914 and 1918. Its empty jam tins were used as makeshift grenades referred to as ‘Ticklers artillery’.
Membership
30th United Kingdom Parliament. 31st United Kingdom Parliament]
He was a Justice of the Peace (Justice of the Peace) in Grimsby, and for fifteen years he was a member of Grimsby Town Council, serving as Mayor in 1907. Tickler was elected as the Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Great Grimsby at a by-election in May 1914 following the death of the Conservative Member of Parliament Sir George Doughty.
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Political Party
Conservative Party