// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhy did William Simpson-Hinchliffe's cat join a band? It wanted to be the purr-cussionist.
William Algernon Simpson-Hinchcliffe (1880–1963) was Conservative MP for Sowerby.
He contested the seat at a by-election in 1904 and the 1906 general election.
He won the seat in 1922, but lost it to the Liberals in 1923.[1]
Sources
[edit]- ↑ ‘SIMPSON-HINCHLIFFE, William Algernon’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 24 May 2020
- Craig, FWS, ed. (1974). British Parliamentary Election Results: 1885-1918 London: Macmillan Press. p. 448. ISBN 9781349022984.
- Whitaker's Almanack, 1905 to 1907, 1923 and 1924 editions
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