Shepherd in 1926
Arthur Lewis Shepherd (7 February 1884 – 14 April 1951) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom .
He was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Darlington at a by-election in 1926 , having unsuccessfully contested the seat at the 1924 general election . He was re-elected in 1929 , but when Labour split at the 1931 general election as Ramsay MacDonald led the breakaway National Labour group into a Conservative -dominated National Government , he lost his seat to the Conservative candidate Charles Peat . He stood again in 1935 , but lost again by a margin of over 10% of the votes.
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