Sir John Bamford Slack was a British politician, member of the Liberal Party and Methodist lay preacher.

He was elected to the House of Commons for the division of St Albans

St Albans (UK Parliament constituency)

St Albans is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Established in 1885, it is a county constituency in Hertfordshire, and elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.From 1554 to 1852 there was a...

  27th Parliament (1900–1906)

MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1900

This is a list of Members of Parliament elected to the 27th Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1900 general election, held over several days from 25 September to 24 October 1900....

 at a by-election on 12 February 1904, replacing Vicary Gibbs

Vicary Gibbs (MP)

The Hon. Vicary Gibbs was a British barrister, merchant and Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1892 to 1904.- Early life and family :Gibbs came from an old Devon family....

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In 1905, he introduced a bill for women's suffrage

Women's suffrage

Women's suffrage or woman suffrage is the right of women to vote and to run for office. The expression is also used for the economic and political reform movement aimed at extending these rights to women and without any restrictions or qualifications such as property ownership, payment of tax, or...

, which was talked out.

He received a knighthood.

He married Alice Maud Mary Bretherton (died 1932), who after his death became the first wife of Sir Banister Flight Fletcher.

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