Gabriel Price
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Gabriel Price was a British
Labour Party
politician.
He was elected as Member of Parliament
for Hemsworth
at the 1931 general election
, and died in office in 1934.
Gabe Price was born in Fairburn North Yorkshire, he worked as a checkweighman at the Frickley Colliery and was devoted to the service of the miners. He was the son of a miner and at the age of twelve started work in the pit himself at Hemsworth Colliery. He represented his union branch on the council of the Yorkshire Miners' Association and was a member of the West Riding County Council and the West Riding Education Committee. He was also an alderman and a county magistrate.
United Kingdom
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Labour Party
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
politician.
He was elected as Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament
A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...
for Hemsworth
Hemsworth (UK Parliament constituency)
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at the 1931 general election
United Kingdom general election, 1931
The United Kingdom general election on Tuesday 27 October 1931 was the last in the United Kingdom not held on a Thursday. It was also the last election, and the only one under universal suffrage, where one party received an absolute majority of the votes cast.The 1931 general election was the...
, and died in office in 1934.
Gabe Price was born in Fairburn North Yorkshire, he worked as a checkweighman at the Frickley Colliery and was devoted to the service of the miners. He was the son of a miner and at the age of twelve started work in the pit himself at Hemsworth Colliery. He represented his union branch on the council of the Yorkshire Miners' Association and was a member of the West Riding County Council and the West Riding Education Committee. He was also an alderman and a county magistrate.