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Edward Pickersgill

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before entering employment at age 18 as a clerk in Savings Bank Department of the Post Office, remaining there until 1885. He graduated with a B.A. from
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when there was a swing to the Liberals. He held the seat at the two general elections of 1910, but
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Pickersgill was the son of Thomas Pickersgill, an architect of York. He was educated at
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Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 3)
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in July 1911 in order to take up a post as a stipendary magistrate.
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Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1886
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in 1884, and practiced as a Treasury counsel at the
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House of Commons
York Grammar School
London University
Inner Temple
Old Bailey
1885 general election
Member of Parliament
Bethnal Green South West
Progressive Party
London County Council
general election of 1900
Unionist
six years later
resigned from the Commons
Manor of Northstead
pneumonia
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