Sir George Christopher Trout Bartley KCB

Order of the Bath

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 (22 November 1842 – 13 September 1910) was an English civil servant, banker and Conservative

Conservative Party (UK)

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 politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1906.

Bartley was born at Stoke Newington

Stoke Newington

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, the son of Robert Bartley and his wife Julia Anne Lucas. He was educated at Clapton, London and University College School

University College School

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. He entered public service and worked for twenty years at the Science and Art Department

Science and Art Department

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, becoming Assistant Director. He was interested in poverty and social issues and published works on education and on building self-reliance He supported technical education, and was treasurer of the Society of Arts. He established a Penny Bank, which became the National Penny Bank. He was a J.P.

Justice of the Peace

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 for Middlesex and Westminster.

Trout Bartley stood for parliament in Hackney

Hackney (UK Parliament constituency)

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 at the 1880 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1880

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, but was unsuccessful. He was elected as Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Islington North

Islington North (UK Parliament constituency)

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 at the 1885 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1885

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 and held the seat until his defeat in 1906

United Kingdom general election, 1906

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. He announced that he would stand again when a suitable opportunity arose, and contested the Hull West by-election

Hull West by-election, 1907

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 in November 1907. The intervention for the first time of a Labour Party

Labour Party (UK)

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 candidate cut the Liberal majority, but not by enough for Bartley to win the seat, and after his defeat in Hull he did not stand for Parliament again.

In 1902 he was knighted as KCB. He was a member of the Traffic Commission and travelled extensively. He was in South Africa when the Boer War broke out.

In 1864, Bartley married Mary Charlotte Cole the daughter of Henry Cole

Henry Cole

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 superintendent of the Science and Art Department. They had four sons.

Publications

• A Square Mile in the East End 1870
• Schools for the people 1871
• Provident Knowledge Papers 1872
• The Seven Ages of a Village Pauper 1874
• The Parish Net, How it is Dragged and what it Catches 1875

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