Francis Samuel Smith was a British newspaper editor and Christian socialist politician, who contested a large number of elections before finally winning a parliamentary seat in his mid-70s.
Official portrait, 1908
Nuneaton (constituency)
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Nuneaton is a constituency in Warwickshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Jodie Gosling of the Labour Party.
Frank Smith (British politician)
…the 1909 Taunton by-election, 1909 Croydon by-election, in Chatham in December 1910, Balham and Tooting in 1918, Birmingham West in 1922 and 1923, and Nuneaton in 1924. He finally won Nuneaton at the 1929 general election, his twelfth attempt to get into Parliament. Despite already being 74 years old, he acted…
Nuneaton 1885–1918
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