George Hadfield

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George Hadfield (1787—21 April 1879) was an English author and Radical politician. He was born in Sheffield, the son of a successful merchant (his father was noted as being one of the first people in Sheffield to own an umbrella). A prominent Congregationalist and dissenter, he took part in the forming of the Anti-Corn Law League. After standing, unsuccessfully, for election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bradford in 1835 he was elected as MP for the Sheffield constituency in 1852, holding the seat for the next 22 years.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by John Parker	Member of Parliament for Sheffield 1852–1874	Succeeded by John Arthur Roebuck

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• Stainton, J.H. (1924). The Storm of Politics. In The Making of Sheffield, 1865-1914, chapter 4. Sheffield: E. Weston & Sons. (This book is out of print but an OCR'd version is available online.)
• "House of Commons constituencies beginning with "S"." Leigh Rayments Peerage Page. Accessed on 20 June 2005.