Joshua Ritson

{{Short description|British Labour politician}}

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{{Use British English|date=August 2013}}

Joshua Ritson CBE (16 June 1874 in Farlam – 5 February 1955 in Sunderland)"[https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/people/mr-joshua-ritson/index.html Mr Joshua Ritson]", Hansard 1803–2005 → People (R) via UK Parliament"[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tvpAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3qcMAAAAIBAJ&dq=joshua%20ritson%20dies&pg=2258%2C2604591 Former M.P. Dies]", The Bulletin, 7 February 1955"[https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N23L-NMR England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for Joshua Ritson]" @ familysearch.org was a British Labour politician who served as member of parliament (MP) for the City of Durham. He was elected in 1922, unseated in 1931, and re-elected in 1935 and remained in Parliament until 1945."[https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/joshua_ritson/city_of_durham Mr Joshua Ritson]" @ theyworkforyou.com"Mr. Joshua Ritson", The Times, London, Monday, 7 February 1955; page 10, Issue 53159. He is known for his representation of the Durham miners.Hester Barron, The 1926 miners' lockout: meanings of community in the Durham coalfield, Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2010, {{ISBN|0-19-957504-5}}, {{ISBN|978-0-19-957504-6}}, 314 pages ([https://books.google.com/books?id=3-ocITo2UDYC&dq=Joshua+Ritson+mining&pg=PA40 page 40]) He became mayor of Sunderland in 1945,Sarah Stoner, "[https://archive.today/20120919021950/http://www.sunderlandecho.com/community/nostalgia/retro/wearside_echoes_a_century_of_home_comforts_1_4108264 Wearside Echoes: A century of home comforts]", Sunderland Echo, Monday 2 January 2012 and was appointed the C.B.E. Order of the British Empire in 1949.Who was who: a companion to Who's who, containing the biographies of those who died, Volume 5, Publisher A. & C. Black, 1961. ([https://books.google.com/books?id=Wg7YAAAAMAAJ&q=%22joshua+ritson%22+Elizabeth page 929]) In 1951 he was made Roll of Honorary Freeman of the former Borough of Sunderland.8 October 1951, "Roll of Honorary Freeman of the former Borough of Sunderland", Sunderland City Council.