Authors starting with W

- Charles Frederick White (March 11, 1863 - December 4, 1923) -

Ancestry: Tetbury in Gloucestershire, South West England

Charles Frederick White was an English boot and shoemaker and Liberal Party politician. He was Member of Parliament for the Western Division of Derbyshire from 1918-1923.

White was born in Tetbury in Gloucestershire in 1863, the son of Frederick and Ruth White. He was educated privately in Tetbury. In 1881 he married Alice Charlesworth of Bonsall, Derbyshire. They had one son and five daughters. White’s son, also called Charles Frederick (1891-1956), inherited his father’s political activism, although in the Labour rather than the Liberal interest. He unsuccessfully contested his father’s old seat of West Derbyshire at a by-election in 1938 as the Labour candidate. He then fought the seat again in 1944 as an Independent candidate, having resigned from Labour to get round the electoral truce agreed between the main parties and this time won the seat. He reverted to official Labour status for the 1945 general election and represented West Derbyshire until 1950.

White was originally a boot and shoemaker and dealer by trade but he gave this up to go into politics full-time by becoming a registration and political agent for the Liberal Party in the West Derbyshire area. He also acted as agent for Barnet Kenyon, the Derbyshire Miners’ Association candidate at Chesterfield.