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Rev Sir Herbert Dunnico (2 December 1875 – 2 October 1953)〔(Historical list of MPs: C, part 5 ), at Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages〕 was a British Baptist minister, leading Freemason and Labour Party politician. Born in Wales, he started work in a factory aged ten, but studied in his spare time and won a scholarship to University College Nottingham. He was ordained as a Baptist minister in Warrington and Liverpool, and became president of the Liverpool Free Church Council.〔(Body without soul: The Philosophical Outlook of British Freemasonry 1700-2000 ), by Professor Andrew Prescott. Published by (The Cornerstone Society )〕 == Political career == He formed the Peace Negotiation Committee in 1916 to call for a truce with Germany.〔(Founder of the awkward squad ), This is North East, 5th Nov 2005〕 A committed socialist, he was elected at the 1922 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Consett. From 1929 to 1931 he was Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons, and Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee.〔 Dunnico also holds the distinction of being the Labour Party's first backbench rebel, when on 21 February 1924 he became the first Labour MP ever to vote against a Labour government. The vote was on the First Labour Government's programme of building light cruisers, to which Dunnico (a former secretary of the Peace Society〔( International Peace Society Records, 1817-1948 )〕〔() He is listed as the Secretary of the International Peace Society in the 1921 edition of the ''Labour International Handbook'']〕) objected because he feared the start of an arms race, and because believed that the Parliamentary Labour Party had not been properly consulted.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Trident record breakers? )〕 At the 1931 general election, he was defeated in Consett by the National Liberal Party candidate John Dickie.〔 In January 1935 Dunnico announced that he felt it his duty to support the National Government because he felt political partisanship was damaging to the national interest.〔"Labour Leader And National Unity", ''The Times'', 28 January 1935, p. 14.〕 He was National Labour candidate at Wednesbury at the 1935 general election but narrowly failed to win election.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Herbert Dunnico」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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