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Noel Goldie

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Sir Noel Goldie
Born
Noel Barré Goldie

26 December 1882
Liverpool, England[1]
Died4 June 1964
NationalityBritish
EducationRugby School
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
Occupation(s)Judge and politician
Known forRecorder of Manchester
Political partyConservative Party

Sir Noel Barré Goldie KC (26 December 1882 – 4 June 1964) was a British judge and Conservative Party politician.[3]

He was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge, qualifying Bachelor of Law in 1905.[4]

Judicial career

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He worked in chambers until the outbreak of the First World War, when he fought in Belgium and France as a Staff Captain in the Royal Artillery. He resumed his career after the war and took silk in 1928. He was made a Bencher in 1935 and a Reader in 1958.

The following year he was appointed Recorder of Burnley, a position he held until he was appointed Recorder of Manchester in 1935, a position he filled until 1956.

Parliamentary career

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At the 1929 general election, Goldie stood as the Conservative candidate for the borough of Warrington in Lancashire, defending the seat vacated by Alec Cunningham-Reid, who was standing instead in Southampton. However, in a three-way contest, Goldie was defeated by Charles Dukes, the borough's former Labour Party MP who regained the seat with over 50% of the votes.[5]

At the next general election, in 1931, the governing Labour Party was split, and its leader Ramsay MacDonald (Prime Minister since 1929) having broken with his party to form a First National Government 1931 with Conservative support. Labour lost most of its seats, including Warrington, where Goldie took 56.2% of the votes in a two-contest with Dukes.[5]

Goldie was returned again to the House of Commons at the 1935 general election, and held the seat until his defeat in the Labour landslide at the 1945 general election.[5] He was the last Conservative MP for the Warrington constituency, which thereafter returned Labour MPs until its abolition in 1983.

He was knighted in the King's Birthday Honours in June 1945.[6]

References

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  1. ^ 1911 England Census
  2. ^ England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916–2007
  3. ^ "Historical list of MPs: House of Commons constituencies beginning with "W" (part 1)". Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages. Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 21 November 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  4. ^ "Northern Circuit directory". Retrieved 23 March 2018.
  5. ^ a b c Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 267. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
  6. ^ "No. 37119". The London Gazette (Supplement). 3 August 1918. p. 2934.
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Warrington
19311945
Succeeded by