Bot: robot: Create/update articles. If there is a mistake please report on my talk page.

2022-02-13T06:36:01Z

robot: Create/update articles. If there is a mistake please report on my talk page.

← Older revision		Revision as of 12:06, 13 February 2022
Line 1:		Line 1:
	{{Use dmy dates\|date=September ~~2022~~}}		{{Use dmy dates\|date=September 2016}}
	{{Use British English\|date=September ~~2022~~}}		{{Use British English\|date=September 2016}}
	Lieutenant-Colonel '''Thomas Samuel Beauchamp Williams''' (1877 – 7 July 1927)<ref name="rayment">{{Rayment-hc\|k\|1\|date=March ~~2022~~}}</ref> was a British physician of the [[Indian Medical Service]], and a [[Labour Party (UK)\|Labour Party]] politician. He was the [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)\|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for the [[Kennington (UK Parliament constituency)\|Kennington division]] of [[Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth\|Lambeth]] from 1923 to 1924.<ref name="rayment" />		Lieutenant-Colonel '''Thomas Samuel Beauchamp Williams''' (1877 – 7 July 1927)<ref name="rayment">{{Rayment-hc\|k\|1\|date=March 2012}}</ref> was a British physician of the [[Indian Medical Service]], and a [[Labour Party (UK)\|Labour Party]] politician. He was the [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)\|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for the [[Kennington (UK Parliament constituency)\|Kennington division]] of [[Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth\|Lambeth]] from 1923 to 1924.<ref name="rayment" />

	==Biography==		==Biography==

Bot: robot: Create/upgrade articles. If there is a mistake please report on my talk page.

2022-02-13T06:36:01Z

robot: Create/upgrade articles. If there is a mistake please report on my talk page.

New page

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2022}}
{{Use British English|date=September 2022}}
Lieutenant-Colonel '''Thomas Samuel Beauchamp Williams''' (1877 – 7 July 1927)<ref name="rayment">{{Rayment-hc|k|1|date=March 2022}}</ref> was a British physician of the [[Indian Medical Service]], and a [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] politician. He was the [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for the [[Kennington (UK Parliament constituency)|Kennington division]] of [[Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth|Lambeth]] from 1923 to 1924.<ref name="rayment" />

==Biography==
In 1902, he passed out from the Army Medical School, Punjab, and gained the rank of Lieutenant in the [[Indian Medical Service]]. He reached the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, a [[brevet promotion]] in the Indian Medical Service in 1917,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.edinburgh-gazette.co.uk/issues/13135/pages/1848/page.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=5 August 2010 |archive-date=21 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131221002256/http://www.edinburgh-gazette.co.uk/issues/13135/pages/1848/page.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> serving through the [[First World War]]. In 1922, he criticised the hospitals policy of the [[British Medical Association]] from the Labour Party point of view.<ref>{{cite journal | pmc=2416320 | volume=1 | issue=3206 |pages = S221–S228| journal=British Medical Journal | title=Supplement 942 | doi=10.1136/bmj.1.3206.s221|year = 1922}}</ref>

Williams first stood for [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Parliament]] at the [[1922 United Kingdom general election|1922 general election]] in [[Bridgwater (UK Parliament constituency)|Bridgwater division of Somerset]], where came a poor third with only 6.7% of the votes.<ref name="craig1918-1949">{{cite book
|last=Craig
|first=F. W. S.
|authorlink= F. W. S. Craig
|title=British parliamentary election results 1918–1949
|origyear=1969
|edition=3rd
|year=1983
|publisher= Parliamentary Research Services
|location=Chichester
|isbn= 0-900178-06-X
|page=454
}}</ref> At the [[1923 United Kingdom general election|1923 general election]] he stood in Kennington, a [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]-held seat which he won<ref>{{London Gazette
|issue= 32897
|date= 11 January 1924
|page=362
|city=London
}}</ref> with a majority of 2.4% of the votes.<ref name="craig-kennington">Craig, page 34</ref> However, he was defeated at the [[1924 United Kingdom general election|next general, election in October 1924]] by the Conservative candidate [[George Harvey (UK politician)|George Harvey]],<ref name="craig-kennington" /> and polled a poor third at the [[1925 Eastbourne by-election|June 1925 by-election]] in [[Eastbourne (UK Parliament constituency)|Eastbourne]],<ref>Craig, page 480</ref> after which he did not stand again.

==References==
{{reflist}}

==Further reading==
*T. S. B. Williams, ''A Lecture On Leprosy: A New View Of Its Bacteriology And Treatment'', The British Medical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 2659 (16 December 1911), pp. 1582–1585

== External links ==
*{{Hansard-contribs | lieut-colonel-thomas-williams | Thomas Williams }}

{{s-start}}
{{s-par|uk}}
{{s-bef | before = [[Francis Capel Harrison]] }}
{{s-ttl
| title = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Kennington (UK Parliament constituency)|Kennington]]
| years = [[1923 United Kingdom general election|1923]] – [[1924 United Kingdom general election|1924]]
}}
{{s-aft | after = [[George Harvey (British politician)|George Harvey]] }}
{{s-end}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Williams, Thomas}}
[[Category:1877 births]]
[[Category:1927 deaths]]
[[Category:20th-century English medical doctors]]
[[Category:Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies]]
[[Category:Members of the Fabian Society]]
[[Category:UK MPs 1923–1924]]
[[Category:Politics of the London Borough of Lambeth]]
[[Category:Indian Medical Service officers]]
[[Category:Indian Army personnel of World War I]]

{{England-Labour-UK-MP-stub}}

Thomas Williams (Kennington MP) - Revision history

Bot: robot: Create/update articles. If there is a mistake please report on my talk page.

Bot: robot: Create/upgrade articles. If there is a mistake please report on my talk page.