Harry Dixon Longbottom

Rev. Harry Longbottom
Lord Mayor of Liverpool
In office
1950–1951
Preceded bySir Joseph Jackson Cleary
Succeeded byColonel Vere Cotton C.B.E.

The Reverend Harry Dixon Longbottom (1886–1962) was a British Baptist Minister and politician who served as Lord Mayor of Liverpool.

Biography

Longbottom was born in Yorkshire in 1886. He was elected to Liverpool City Council on 1 December 1925 as Conservative Protestant for Breckfield Ward.[citation needed] In 1926 he lost his seat by only 46 votes but regained a council place for St. Domingo ward on 31 October 1930.[citation needed]

He stood as a Liverpool Protestant Party candidate unsuccessfully for Kirkdale in the 1931 general election.[citation needed] He tried again unsuccessfully in 1935. He was elected as an Alderman in 1935.[citation needed]

He served as Lord Mayor of Liverpool from 1950-51.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ "List of Lord Mayors of Liverpool" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 August 2016. Retrieved 13 August 2016.


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