Tudor Walters
{{Short description|British politician (1868–1933)}}
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| name = Sir Tudor Walters
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| order1 = Paymaster General
| term_start1 = 26 October 1919
| term_end1 = 19 October 1922
| monarch1 = George V
| primeminister1 = David Lloyd George
| predecessor1 = Sir Joseph Compton-Rickett
| successor1 = Vacant
| term_start2 = 4 September 1931
| term_end2 = 5 November 1931
| monarch2 = George V
| primeminister2 = Ramsay MacDonald
| predecessor2 = Vacant
| successor2 = The Lord Rochester
| birth_place = Pontypool, Monmouthshire
| death_date = {{Death-date and age|16 July 1933|25 February 1866}}
| death_place = Middlesex, England
| nationality = British
| party = Liberal
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Sir John Tudor Walters PC (25 February 1866 – 16 July 1933) was a Welsh architect, surveyor and Liberal Party politician.The Times House of Commons, 1910; Politico's Publishing, 2004 p49 He served as Paymaster General under David Lloyd George from 1919 to 1922 and once again briefly in 1931 under Ramsay MacDonald.
Political career
Walters was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Brightside at the 1906 general electionThe Times House of Commons, 1910; Politico's Publishing, 2004 p49 and was knighted in 1912.{{London Gazette|issue=28588|date=8 March 1912|page=1746}}
He served as Paymaster General in the Government of David Lloyd George from 1919 to 1922The Times House of Commons 1929; Politico's Publishing, 2003 p72 and was sworn of the Privy Council in 1919. He lost his seat at Sheffield at the 1922 general election.F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949; Political Reference Publications, Glasgow, 1949, p. 235
He tried unsuccessfully to get back into the House of Commons in 1923 at Pudsey and Otley in the West Riding of Yorkshire.F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949; Political Reference Publications, Glasgow, 1949 p 521 He again stood for election to Parliament at the 1929 general election as Liberal candidate for the Cornish seat of Penryn and Falmouth. The seat was a marginal which had been won by the Liberals in 1923, but gained by the Conservatives in 1924, although the incumbent Conservative MP did not seek re-election. Ultimately Walters gained the seat from the Conservatives with a majority of 1,138 votes, with the Labour candidate finishing a relatively close third.{{cite book |title=The Times House of Commons 1929 |date=1929 |publisher=The Times Office |location=London |page=72}} He was once again briefly Paymaster-General from September to November 1931 under Ramsay MacDonald. He stood down from parliament at the 1931 general election.F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918–1949; Political Reference Publications, Glasgow, 1949 p. 313
Housing policy
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He is best known for the Tudor Walters Report that appeared just as the World War was ending in November 1918 and influenced British housing policy for a century.Mark Swenarton, "Tudor Walters and Tudorbethan: reassessing Britain's inter-war suburbs." Planning perspectives 17.3 (2002): 267–86. Walters was inspired by the garden city movement, calling for spacious low-density developments and semi-detached houses built to a high construction standard. Older women could now vote so local politicians started listening to them, and in response put more emphasis on such amenities as communal laundromats, extra bedrooms, indoor lavatories, running hot water, separate parlours to demonstrate respectability, and practical vegetable gardens rather than manicured yards.
Housewives had had their fill of chamber pots. His Report influenced the Housing and Town Planning Act of 1919.Paul Wilding, "The Housing and Town Planning Act 1919—A Study in the Making of Social Policy." Journal of Social Policy 2#4 (1973): 317–334. With it Prime Minister David Lloyd George set up a system of government housing that followed his 1918 campaign promises of "homes fit for heroes".
Called the "Addison Act", it required local authorities to survey their housing needs, and start building houses to replace slums. The treasury subsidized the low rents. Slum clearance now moved from being a public health issue, to a matter of town planning.Martin Pugh, We Danced All Night: A Social History of Britain Between the Wars (2009), pp 60–62Noreen Branson, Britain in the Nineteen Twenties (1976) pp 103–17.
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External links
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Category:Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Penryn and Falmouth