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LAWSON, SIR WILFRID

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 310 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LAWSON, See also:SIR See also:WILFRID , See also:Bart. (1829—1906), See also:English politician and See also:temperance See also:leader, son of the 1st See also:baronet (d. 1867), was See also:born on the 4th of See also:September 1829. He was always an enthusiast in the cause of See also:total See also:abstinence, and in See also:parliament, to which he was first elected in 1859 for See also:Carlisle, he became its leading spokesman. In 1864 he first introduced his Permissive See also:Bill, giving to a two-thirds See also:majority in any See also:district a See also:veto upon the granting of licences for the See also:sale of intoxicating liquors; and though this principle failed to be embodied in any See also:act, he had the See also:satisfaction of seeing a See also:resolution on its lines accepted by a majority in the See also:House of See also:Commons in 188o, 1881 and 1883. He lost his seat for Carlisle in 1865, but in 1868 was again returned as a supporter of Mr See also:Gladstone, and was member till 1885; though defeated for the new See also:Cockermouth See also:division of See also:Cumberland in 1885, he won that seat in 1886, and he held it till the See also:election of 'goo, when his violent opposition to the See also:Boer See also:War caused his defeat, but in 1903 he was returned for the See also:Camborne division of See also:Cornwall and at the See also:general election of 1906 was once more elected for his old See also:constituency in Cumberland. During all these years he was the See also:champion of the See also:United See also:Kingdom See also:Alliance (founded 1853), of which he became See also:president. An extreme See also:Radical, he also supported disestablishment, abolition of the House of Lords, and disarmament. Though violent in the expression of his opinions, Sir Wilfrid Lawson remained very popular for his own See also:sake both in and out of the House of Commons; he became well known for his humorous vein, his See also:faculty for composing topical doggerel being often exercised on questions of the See also:day. He died on the 1st of See also:July 1906.

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