Robert Ascroft

Robert Ascroft , JP. MP, (1847 – 19 June 1899) was a prominent Lancashire solicitor and an English politician. He was one of the two Members of Parliament for Oldham between 1895 and his death, as a member of the Conservative Party. He was known as the "Workers' Friend" and after his death a public subscription enabled a statue of him to be erected in Alexandra Park, Oldham.

Robert Ascroft is mentioned in Chapter XVII of Sir Winston Churchill's book 'My Early Life'. In the seventeenth Chapter, entitled 'Oldham', Mr Churchill recalls the day where Mr Ascroft, MP for Oldham, talked to him about running the constituency together. Oldham was a two-member constituency and evidently Mr Ascroft believed the young Winston -a war hero and celebrity- was ripe for the job.

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References

Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Robert Ascroft

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Joshua Milne Cheetham and John Tomlinson Hibbert	Member of Parliament for Oldham 1895–1899 With: James Francis Oswald	Succeeded by Alfred Emmott and Walter Runciman

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