Thomas Williams (Kennington MP)

Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Samuel Beauchamp Williams (1877 – 7 July 1927){{Rayment-hc|k|1|date=March 2012}} was a British physician of the Indian Medical Service, and a Labour Party politician. He was the member of parliament (MP) for the Kennington division of Lambeth from 1923 to 1924.

Biography

In 1902, he passed out from the Army Medical School, Punjab, and gained the rank of Lieutenant in the Indian Medical Service. He reached the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, a brevet promotion in the Indian Medical Service in 1917,{{Cite web |url=http://www.edinburgh-gazette.co.uk/issues/13135/pages/1848/page.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=5 August 2010 |archive-date=21 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131221002256/http://www.edinburgh-gazette.co.uk/issues/13135/pages/1848/page.pdf |url-status=dead }} serving through the First World War. In 1922, he criticised the hospitals policy of the British Medical Association from the Labour Party point of view.{{cite journal | pmc=2416320 | volume=1 | issue=3206 |pages = S221–S228| journal=British Medical Journal | title=Supplement 942 | doi=10.1136/bmj.1.3206.s221|year = 1922}}

Williams first stood for Parliament at the 1922 general election in Bridgwater division of Somerset, where came a poor third with only 6.7% of the votes.{{cite book

|last=Craig

|first=F. W. S.

|authorlink= F. W. S. Craig

|title=British parliamentary election results 1918–1949

|origyear=1969

|edition=3rd

|year=1983

|publisher= Parliamentary Research Services

|location=Chichester

|isbn= 0-900178-06-X

|page=454

}} At the 1923 general election he stood in Kennington, a Conservative-held seat which he won{{London Gazette

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|date= 11 January 1924

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|city=London

}} with a majority of 2.4% of the votes.Craig, page 34 However, he was defeated at the next general, election in October 1924 by the Conservative candidate George Harvey, and polled a poor third at the June 1925 by-election in Eastbourne,Craig, page 480 after which he did not stand again.