Wilfred Wellock

Wilfred Wellock

Wilfred Wellock (2 January 1879 - 1972) was a socialist Gandhian and sometime Labour politician and MP.

He was imprisoned as a conscientious objector in the First World War.

At a by-election in 1927 he was elected as MP for Stourbridge (UK Parliament constituency), Worcestershire, and re-elected in 1929, but lost the seat in 1931.

He was a prolific pamphleteer.


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