Thomas Worrall Casey

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| name = Thomas Worrall Casey

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| image = File:Thomas Casey.jpg

| constituency_MP = Sheffield Attercliffe

| parliament = United Kingdom

| majority =

| term_start = 1918

| term_end = 1922

| predecessor = William Anderson

| successor = Cecil Wilson

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1869|10|13|df=y}}

| birth_place = Sheffield, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1949|11|29|1869|10|13|df=y}}

| death_place = Sheffield, England

| party = Liberal

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Thomas Worrall Casey (13 October 1869 – 29 November 1949) was a British Liberal politician and Trade Union leader.

Background

He was born in the Intake district of Sheffield, as the son of William and Jemima Ann Casey. He was educated at Gleadless Church School. He was married in 1894. He had two sons and three daughters. In 1916 his eldest son, Alpheaus Abbott Casey of the York and Lancaster Regiment, was killed in the First World War. His memorial can be found in Thiepval in the Lancaster regiment.‘CASEY, Thomas Worrall’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U223573, accessed 1 January 2014]

Trade Unionism

He started work at 12 years of age on a farm. At 13 he went to work at Birley Colliery, near Sheffield, where he remained until 18 years of age. He was employed at this time as an engineman. He left and started at Cadeby Colliery, near Rotherham, as a winding engineman, and remained there for 24 years. On leaving he was presented with a Gold Hunter Watch by workmen and officials. He was elected as the General Secretary of the National Winding and General Engineers' Society, serving for 25 years.

Politics

At the 1918 general election, Casey was elected for the Sheffield Attercliffe constituency. He benefitted from being endorsed by Prime Minister David Lloyd George.

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Electorate 35,923}}

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|candidate = Thomas Worrall Casey

|votes = 12,308

|percentage = 65.3

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|party = Labour Party (UK)

|candidate = William Anderson

|votes = 6,539

|percentage = 34.7

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|votes = 5,769

|percentage = 30.6

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In parliament, he joined Lloyd George's Liberal group that was to form itself into the National Liberal Party.

He lost his seat at the 1922 general election.

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|title=General election 1922: Sheffield AttercliffeBritish Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949, F W S Craig

Electorate 34,671}}

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|party = Labour Party (UK)

|candidate = Cecil Wilson

|votes = 16,206

|percentage = 68.2

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|party = National Liberal Party (UK, 1922)

|candidate = Thomas Worrall Casey

|votes = 7,562

|percentage = 31.8

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|votes = 8,644

|percentage = 36.4

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|percentage = 68.6

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Following Liberal reunion in 1923 he contested Ilkeston in 1923,

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|title=General election 1923: IlkestonBritish Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949, F W S Craig

Electorate 31,503

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{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Labour Party (UK)

|candidate = George Oliver

|votes = 9,191

|percentage = 42.1

|change = +2.1

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|party = Unionist Party (UK)

|candidate = William Marshall Freeman

|votes = 6,566

|percentage = 30.0

|change = +5.3

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|party = Liberal Party (UK)

|candidate = Thomas Worrall Casey

|votes = 6,112

|percentage = 27.9

|change = -7.4

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|votes = 2,625

|percentage = 12.1

|change = +7.4

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|percentage = 69.4

|change = -7.4

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|winner = Labour Party (UK)

|swing = -1.6

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He then moved to contest Gloucester in 1929 as a Liberal.

He finally fought Rotherham in 1935 as a Liberal National.

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|party = Labour Party (UK)

|candidate = William Dobbie

|votes = 29,725

|percentage = 67.5

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|party = National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)

|candidate = Thomas Worrall Casey

|votes = 14,298

|percentage = 32.5

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|votes = 15,427

|percentage = 35.0

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With this final loss, he gave up on Parliamentary politics. He was elected to Mexborough Urban District Council. He was a Justice of the Peace in the city of Sheffield. He was a Methodist lay preacher for 60 years.

He died in Sheffield aged 80.

References

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  • Michael Stenton and Stephen Lees, Who's Who of British MPs: Volume III, 1919–1945