Benjamin Thomas Ford (born 1 April 1925), known as Ben Ford, is a British politician. Events 527 - Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne Year 1925 ( MCMXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located

Ford was an electronic fitter-wireman and was a councillor on Clacton Urban District Council 1959-62 and an alderman of Essex County Council 1959-65. History Clacton was the site of the lower Palaeolithic Clactonian industry of flint tool manufacture In the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, an urban district was a type of Local government district that covered an Urbanised area An alderman is a member of a municipal assembly or council in many jurisdictions Essex is a county in the East of England. The County town is Chelmsford, and the highest point of the county is Chrishall Common A County council is the elected administrative body governing an area known as a County. He was election agent for Harwich in 1959 and was president of that Constituency Labour Party for seven years. Harwich is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. A Constituency Labour Party (CLP is an organisation of members of the British Labour Party who live in a particular parliamentary Constituency in England Married Vera Ada Fancett 1950. Three children. Anthony,Paula, Ivan.

Ford was elected Labour Party Member of Parliament for Bradford North at the 1964 general election. The Labour Party is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a Parliament. Bradford North is a Constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Campaign The pre-election campaign was prolonged as Douglas-Home delayed calling a general election in order to try to give himself the maximum time to improve the In 1983, he was deselected as the Labour candidate in favour of Pat Wall, and subsequently stood in the 1983 general election as an independent Labour candidate. Charles Patrick Wall ( 6 May 1933 &ndash 6 August 1990) was an English Trotskyist political figure and Labour Results The Conservatives won with a majority of 144 seats|} Total votes cast 30661309 Ford polled 9% of the vote, which split Labour support and may have helped the Conservative candidate Geoffrey Lawler to win. The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Geoffrey John Lawler (born 30 October 1954) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. By the early 1990s he had joined the Liberal Democrats. The 1990s collectively refers to the years between and including 1990 and 1999 The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems, are a liberal Political party in the United Kingdom, formed in 1988 by merging the

References

• Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1966 & 1983
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page