From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Richard Winfrey
Richard Winfrey
Sir Richard Winfrey (8 August 1858- 18 April 1944) was a Chairman of the Lincolnshire and Norfolk Small Holdings
British Liberal politician, newspaper publisher and cam- Association, Ltd[6] and sometime Chairman of the Nation-
paigner for agricultural rights. al Educational Association.[7] At its foundation in 1906
he was Treasurer of the Eastern Counties Agricultural
Birth, Death and Family Labourers & Small Holders Union which in 1920 became
the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers.
Winfrey was born at Long Sutton in Lincolnshire on 5 Au-
gust 1858. He married Annie Lucy Pattinson of Rusking-
ton, Lincolnshire in 1897. His wife’s brothers, Samuel Pat-
References
tinson (1870-1942) and Sir Robert Pattinson (1872-1954) [1] Northamptonshire Past and Present,
were both Liberal MPs; Samuel for Horncastle from Northamptonshire Record Society., 1992 p317
1922-24 and Robert for Grantham from 1922-23. [1] In re- [2] Stephen Koss, Nonconformity in Modern British
ligion Winfrey was a Congregationalist.[2] He died on 18 Politics; Archon Books, 1975 p135
April 1944 in Castor House, Castor, Peterborough. [3] The Times, 23 September 1985
[4] EMAP plc - Company History
Publishing [5] Part 2: ’Fen men to the marrow’ who have served
us down through the years - Peterborough Today
In 1887, Richard Winfrey purchased the Spalding [6] Who was Who, OUP 2007
Guardian, a local newspaper that was to provide the basis [7] The Liberal Year Book, National Liberal Federation,
for the Winfrey family’s newspaper interests. His next Liberal Central Association (Great Britain); Liberal
purchase was the Lynn News; he also started the North Publication Dept., 1933 p21
Cambs Echo and bought the Peterborough Advertiser.
During World War II Winfrey’s newspaper interests be-
gan to be passed over to his son, Richard Pattinson Win-
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frey (1902-1985) who himself unsuccessfully stood in the • Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by
Holland with Boston by-election in 1924.[3] In 1947, under Richard Winfrey
the direction of Pat Winfrey, the family’s newspaper ti- Persondata
tles were consolidated to form the East Midland Allied
Name Winfrey, Richard
Press, now the emap media group.[4]
Alternative names
Politics Short description
Date of birth 1858
Winfrey first contested South West Norfolk as a Liberal at
the general election of 1895 and tried again in 1900. He Place of birth
was elected Liberal MP for South West Norfolk at the 1906 Date of death 1944
Liberal landslide election and he held the seat until 1923. Place of death
He also represented Gainsborough from 1923-24. His first
career had been as a chemist, and he steered the Poisons
and Pharmacy Act 1908 through Parliament.
Office
Between 1906-1910 Winfrey served as Parliamentary Sec-
retary to Earl Carrington and Parliamentary Secretary to
the Board of Agriculture from 1916-1918.
In August 1914 as Mayor of Peterborough he was per-
haps the last person to read the Riot Act after anti-Ger-
man disturbances.[5]
Winfrey was knighted in the 1914 New Year’s Ho-
nours. He also served as a Justice of the Peace. He was
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Richard Winfrey
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for South West Nor- Succeeded by
Sir Thomas Leigh Hare folk Alan McLean
1906–1923
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Gainsborough Succeeded by
John Elsdale Molson 1923–1924 Harry Crookshank
Political offices
Preceded by Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Succeeded by
The Duke of Marlborough Board of Agriculture and Fisheries Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen
The Viscount Goschen with The Lord Clinton
1918–1919
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