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Liberal politician and philanthropist; born 15 March 1832 in Shrewsbury. Entered china-manufacturing business of James Macintyre in Burslem and married his daughter 1862; chairman of Wedgwood Institute (promoting wider access to arts and science), Burslem School Board 1870–80 and North Staffordshire Society for Promotion of the Welfare of the Deaf and Dumb and sat on royal commissions for technical education and the care of deaf and blind mutes 1881–9; MP for Stoke-on-Trent 1880–86 and first MP for new Hanley constituency (Stoke-on-Trent) 1885–1900; as chairman of the Central Committee for Women’s Suffrage responsible for proposing a number of bills on electoral reform; Surveyor-General of the Ordinance 1886 and Financial Secretary of War Office 1892–5; presented wing and library to Wedgwood Institute and founded Woodall Liberal Club, Burslem; died 8 April 1901, at Llandudno, Wales; Woodall Memorial Congregational Church constructed at Burslem 1905–6. [1]

Elizabeth Heath

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