William Coldrick was a Labour Co-operative

Labour Co-operative

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 politician in the United Kingdom

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He was elected as Member of Parliament

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 for Bristol North

Bristol North (UK Parliament constituency)

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 at the 1945 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1945

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. When that constituency was abolished in boundary changes for the 1950 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1950

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, he was returned to Parliament

Parliament of the United Kingdom

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 for the new Bristol North East

Bristol North East (UK Parliament constituency)

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 constituency. He was defeated at the 1959 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1959

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 by the Conservative and National Liberal candidate

Conservative Party (UK)

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 Alan Hopkins.

He was Chairman of the Co-operative Party from 1945 to 1955 and was Sherriff of Bristol in the nineteen sixties. He was briefly in prison during the General Strike

General strike

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 of 1926 with Arthur Jenkins, the father of Roy Jenkins

Roy Jenkins

Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead OM, PC was a British politician.The son of a Welsh coal miner who later became a union official and Labour MP, Roy Jenkins served with distinction in World War II. Elected to Parliament as a Labour member in 1948, he served in several major posts in...

. He died in 1975 aged 81.