Walter Henry Ayles was a British Labour Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament for 11 years between 1923 and 1953.
Career
He was also imprisoned as a conscientious objector, and served as secretary of the Number More War Movement, 1931-1932. He was a Councillor on Bristol City Council, first elected for the Easton ward in November 1919. He had been selected by Bristol East ILP to be their candidate for the 1918 General Election. but was replaced prior to the campaign.
He died that July, aged 74.
Ayles Road, a street in Yeading, which formed part of his constituency, is named after him. Several nearby roads are also named after important people in the history of the Labour Party.
Membership
33rd United Kingdom Parliament. 35th United Kingdom Parliament. 38th United Kingdom Parliament.
39th United Kingdom Parliament.
40th United Kingdom Parliament]
One of the founding group of the Number-Conscription Fellowship in November 1914, early in the First World War, he was a member of its national committee and a signatory of the Repeal the Acting (Military Service Acting 1916) leaflet, which resulted in the committee members being prosecuted under the Defence of the Realm Acting, a number of them, including Ayles, being imprisoned for two months. He was Member of Parliament for Bristol North from 1923 to 1924 and from 1929 to 1931.
Foreign Southall from 1945 to 1950. And for Hayes and Harlington from 1950 until he resigned his seat, on account of failing health, on 31 January 1953, by accepting the post of Steward of the Manor of Northstead.