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John Duncuft (born Oldham 1796, died Frodsham 1852)[1] sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom as a Member of Parliament for Oldham 1847-1852.
Biography
[edit]Son of Isiah Duncuft, an Oldham clothier; in 1814 married Hannah Bradbury (born 1793), daughter of a Saddleworth clothier. "A self-made cotton manufacturer who had started his career by buying a second-hand pair of spinning mules" [2], by 1838 he was commuting daily from Oldham to Manchester, engaged in stock-broking on the Manchester Stock Exchange. In 1842, he disposed of his manufacturing interests: he bought farms in Cheshire,[3] but concentrated on stock-broking. In 1846, when he was chairman of the Manchester Stock Exchange,[4] he was reported to have subscribed for over £22,000 of railway shares. [5] (Other brokers listed in the report were similarly committed, and it is not clear how far he (and they) were trading on their own account). He attended shareholders' meetings of the Manchester and Leeds Railway
The grandson of a cotton manufacturer,[6] he was a local mill-owner,[7] mine-owner,[8] and landowner: the Lord of the manor[9] and an Oxford graduate,[10] but dismissed as "a gentleman... qualified neither by age nor ability to fulfill the duties of a member of the imperial parliament" by the Manchester Times:[11] Hansard reports him to have made no speeches in Parliament.[12]
Politics
[edit]Thanks to internal squabbles (principally over the desired relationship between the state and the Anglican church) amongst the Radicals of Oldham,[13] he was elected as a 'Liberal Conservative' at a by-election caused by the death of William Cobbett, narrowly defeating John Morgan Cobbett (Cobbett's son) after another Radical candidate (Feargus O'Connor) withdrew on the first morning of the poll.[14] Lees attributed his victory to the absence of the organised 'intimidation system' he claimed had been practiced in the previous contested election (that of 1832).[15] By the general election of 1837 the Radicals had regrouped, and Lees came bottom of the poll:[16] this he attributed to the return of intimidation and 'exclusive dealing'.[17]
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“The best of all methods of progression in Central Africa is the bicycle…Had I known before coming to Uganda the advantages which this method presents…I should have been able to travel far more widely through the country. Instead of merely journeying from one Great Lake to the other. I could, within the same limits of time have explored the fertile and populous plateau of Toro, descended the beautiful valley of Semliki, and traversed the Albert Lake from to end, and skirted the slopes of Rwenzori. If youth but knew…! W.S. Churchill-My African Journey 1908.
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Death of the Conservative Member for Oldham". Evening Standard. London. 28 July 1852. p. 2.
- ^ Lawrence James (2 December 2010). The Middle Class: A History. Little, Brown Book Group. pp. 86–. ISBN 978-0-7481-2536-4.
- ^ advertisement: "Whittaker's Mill, Manchester Road Oldham". Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser. 21 May 1842. p. 8.
- ^ "Manchester Stock Exchange - Presentation of plate to president". Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser. 26 December 1846. p. 5.
- ^ "Railway Speculation". Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser. 2 September 1846. pp. 2–3.
- ^ The Admission Register of the Manchester School with some Notices of the more Distinguished Scholars. Manchester University Press. 1874. pp. 150–. GGKEY:LJ44YNJ692P. - entry for Edward Lees
- ^ "Oldham - Cotton Mill Burnt". Manchester Times. 5 December 1840. p. 3.
- ^ "Oldham, September 23, 1836: Explosion of Fire-damp - Shocking Accident". Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser. 24 September 1836. p. 3.
- ^ "News of the Neighbouring Towns - Oldham- Turnpike Roads". Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser. 7 June 1851. p. 8.
- ^ "Marriages". Preston Chronicle. 24 December 1831. p. 3.
- ^ "Representation of Oldham". Manchester Times. 4 July 1835. p. 3.
- ^ "People: Mr John Lees".
- ^ the divisions between Oldham Radicals are explored at length in Bickerstaffe, Derek (1964). "Politic and party organisation in Oldham" (PDF). Durham E-Theses Online. Durham University. Retrieved 25 February 2016.; pages 31-59 cover the period 1832-7
- ^ The Spectator. F.C. Westley. 1835. p. 651.
- ^ "Oldham Operative Conservative Association". Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser. 7 January 1837. p. 4.
- ^ "Local Intelligence - Oldham". Manchester Times. 29 July 1837. p. 3.
- ^ "Oldham Conservative Festival". Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser. 6 January 1838. p. 3.