Thomas Lowth

Thomas Lowth (4 November 1858 – 26 May 1931) was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ardwick, a ward in Manchester from 1922 until his death. He was a member of the Labour Party.

Lowth in 1911

Biography

Lowth was born at Billingborough, Lincolnshire on 4 November 1858. Having received elementary school education, he entered the railway service in 1875 and moved to Manchester. He worked on the railway for 23 years, doing various jobs, then became the general secretary of the General Railway Workers' Union in 1898, a trade union he had helped to establish some years earlier lowth died at the age of 73.


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    Parliament of the United Kingdom
    Preceded by
    Augustine Hailwood    		 Member of Parliament for
    1922 – 1931    		 Succeeded by
    Joseph Henderson
    Trade union offices
    Preceded by
    Andrew Clark    		 General Secretary of the General Railway Workers' Union
    1898 – 1913    		 Succeeded by
    Position abolished
    Preceded by
    New position    		 Assistant General Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen
    1913–1919
    With: Samuel Chorlton
    Walter Hudson
    J. H. Thomas (1913–1916)    		 Succeeded by
    Charlie Cramp
    as Industrial General Secretary


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