John Bamford Slack
Sir John Bamford Slack was a British politician, member of the Liberal Party and Methodist lay preacher.Life
Slack was born in Ripley, Derbyshire in 1857. His Liberal Wesleyan Methodist parents were Mary Ann and Thomas Slack. His maternal grandfather made bricks and his younger sister was the temperance activist Agnes Elizabeth Slack.
He was elected to the House of Commons for the constituency of St Albans at the 1904 St Albans by-election, replacing Vicary Gibbs.
In 1905, he introduced a bill for women's suffrage, which was talked out.
He received a knighthood.
He married Alice Maud Mary Bretherton, who after his death; became the first wife of Sir Banister Flight Fletcher.
