Charles McCurdy

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Charles McCurdy

Charles Albert McCurdy (13 March 1870 – 10 November 1941) was a British Liberal Member of Parliament and minister in the Lloyd George Coalition Government. He was made a member of the Privy Council in 1920.

Background

McCurdy was educated at Loughborough Grammar School and Pembroke College, Cambridge.^[1]

Career

He then became a barrister. He was elected Member of Parliament for Northampton, then a two-member constituency, in 1910. He was returned in 1918 when it was reduced to a single-member seat, his former Liberal co-member Hastings Lees-Smith having sought election elsewhere and joined the Labour Party.

Coalition government

He was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food Control from 1919 to 1920 and then Minister of Food Control in 1920. After the Ministry of Food Control was abolished in April 1921, he was appointed Coalition Liberal Chief Whip (officially 'Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury') in succession to Frederick Guest. Guest had held the position during the 1918 seat negotiations with the Unionists. Unlike Guest, McCurdy was more concerned with strengthening the Liberals part in the Coalition and took a much tougher line with the Unionists. A junior Unionist whip Robert Sanders, wrote in his diary that McCurdy was "a particularly bad-mannered fellow...the reverse...of Guest". McCurdy favoured a general election in January 1922 and the formation of a Centre Party made up of Liberals, moderate Conservatives and moderate Labour MPs. In March 1922, McCurdy wrote to Lloyd George claiming that one hundred Unionist MPs would defect if a Centre Party was formed. Lloyd George, however, decided to stay with the Coalition. He left office with Lloyd George when the Unionists ended the coalition in October 1922.

Liberal reunion

After the coalition ended, McCurdy favoured Liberal reunion. He was influential in drawing up the Liberals' manifesto for the 1923 general election, moving it further in a free trade direction. However, he was not returned at that election. He died in November 1941, aged 71, a month before his former co-member for Northampton, Hastings Lees-Smith.

McCurdy's niece, Margaret Wingfield, was an influential member of the Liberal Party, and eventually its President.

Electoral record

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McCurdy

General election 1906: Winchester ^[2]
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	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Guy Victor Baring	1,322	51.0	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Charles Albert McCurdy	1,272	49.0	Script error: No such module "String".
Majority			50	2.0	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout				87.0	Script error: No such module "String".
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General election January 1910: Northampton^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Hastings Bertrand Lees-Smith	5,398	23.3
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Charles Albert McCurdy	5,289	22.9
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Richard Rouse Boughton Orlebar	4,569	19.8
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Frederick Gorell Barnes	4,464	19.3
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	James Gribble	1,792	7.7
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Henry Quelch	1,617	7.0
Majority			720	3.1	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout				92.7	Script error: No such module "String".
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General election 1918: Northampton^[3]
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	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Charles Albert McCurdy	18,010	62.7
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Walter Halls	10,735	37.3	Script error: No such module "String".
Majority			7,275	25.4	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout				62.5	Script error: No such module "String".
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1920 Northampton by-election^[3]
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	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Charles McCurdy	16,650	55.6	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Margaret Grace Bondfield	13,279	44.4	Script error: No such module "String".
Majority			3,371	11.2	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout				67.1	Script error: No such module "String".
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General election 1922: Northampton^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Rt Hon. Charles Albert McCurdy	19,974	52.3	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Margaret Grace Bondfield	14,498	37.9	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Henry Harvey Vivian	3,753	9.8	Script error: No such module "String".
Majority			5,476	14.4	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout				85.5	Script error: No such module "String".
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General election 1923: Northampton ^[3]
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	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Margaret Grace Bondfield	15,556	40.5	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	John Veasy Collier	11,520	30.0	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Rt Hon. Charles Albert McCurdy	11,342	29.5	Script error: No such module "String".
Majority			4,036	10.5	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout				84.3	Script error: No such module "String".
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References

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↑ ^a ^b British Parliamentary Election Results, 1885-1918, FWS Craig
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, FWS Craig

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The Impact of Labour, 1920 - 1924 (Cambridge University Press, 1971) by Maurice Cowling.
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External links

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