- John Edmondson Whittaker
John Edmondson Whittaker (1897 – c.
9 December 1945 ) was a Labour Party politician in theUnited Kingdom .John Whittaker was born in
Burnley in 1897. After working as a weaver in a cotton mill as a boy, Whittaker was educated at Burnley Municipal College and Sarisbury CourtC of E Teachers Training College, Hampshire. He fought in the First World War.In 1921 he marred Alice, daughter of Frank Marshall, esquire. There was a daughter from the marriage.
He was Headmaster of Rosegrove County Modern School, Burnley until his election as Member of Parliament for Heywood and Radcliffe at the 1945 General Election, when he defeated the sitting Conservative MP,
James Henry Wootton-Davies by 892 votes.In late-1945 Whittaker suffered bouts of ill-health, first influenza, then collapsing in Manchester.On 7 December 1945, Whittaker told his wife he was going for a walk. His body was discovered two days later at Crown Point, near Burnley ["The Times", 10 December 1945] . He had committed suicide ["Who's Who of British Members of Parliament", Vol IV, M. Stenton and S. Lees, Harvester, 1981] .
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List of United Kingdom MPs with the shortest service References
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