Major Harry Barnes was a radical United Kingdom Liberal Party politician, architect and author specialising in housing and town planning.
Barnes in 1922
1928 Halifax by-election
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The 1928 Halifax by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 13 July 1928 for the British House of Commons constituency of Halifax in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
Harry Barnes (Liberal politician)
…the Unionist seat of Warwick and Leamington. However, he was not called upon to contest the seat at an election. In 1928, Barnes instead contested a July by-election in the West Yorkshire seat of Halifax, following the resignation of the Speaker of the House of Commons, John Henry Whitley, who had represented the…
John Henry Whitley