Progressive Party (London)
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The Progressive Party was a political party based around the Liberal Party that contested municipal elections in the United Kingdom.
Progressive party in London
It was founded in 1888 by a group of Liberals and leaders of the labour movement. It was also supported by the Fabian Society, and Sidney Webb was one of its councillors. In the first elections of the London County Council (LCC) in January 1889 the Progressive Party won 70 of the 118 seats. It lost power in 1907 to the Municipal Reform Party (a Conservative organisation) under Richard Robinson.
Members
- Henrietta Adler, Arthur Acland Allen
- Joseph Allen Baker, John Williams Benn, Frank Briant, Charles Roden Buxton
- Henry George Chancellor, James William Cleland, George Cooper, Edwin Cornwall, Henry Evan Auguste Cotton
- Willoughby Dickinson
- Garnham Edmonds
- Maurice Arnold de Forest, Hugh Fullerton
- James Daniel Gilbert, Harold James Glanville, Harry Gosling
- George Alexander Hardy, Percy Alfred Harris, Stewart Headlam, John Stanley Holmes, Emslie Horniman
- Richard Cornthwaite Lambert, Hugh Cecil Lea, John Scott Lidgett
- Edward Martell, Charles Albert McCurdy, Thomas McKinnon Wood
- Oswald Partington
- Alfred Salter, Alfred Henry Scott, Edward Smallwood, Evan Spicer
- Frederick William Verney
- David Sydney Waterlow
- Walter Baldwyn Yates
- Alfred William Yeo
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