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.

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.

Death

Lowth died on 26 May 1931 at the age of 72. He had been ill for several weeks, and died in hospital in London.

References

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Thomas Lowth

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 Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants 1913–1919 With: Samuel Chorlton Walter Hudson J. H. Thomas (1913–1916)	Succeeded by Charlie Cramp as Industrial General Secretary

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