Catalogue Number
NMLH.2024.63.4
Object Name
postcard
Title
'Vote for Cockerell'
Place
Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
People
F. P. Cockerill, Conservative Party
Events
1910 General Election, Elections
Description
A black and white portrait of a man wearing a suit with a bow tie. He is looking at the camera. The portrait is imposed over a Union Jack flag, and labeled Vote for Cockerell'.
F. P. Cockerill was a Conservative Party electoral candidate in Mansfield in the 1910 General Election. He received 4,200 votes while A. B. Markham, the Liberal Party candidate received 11,383. The reverse of the postcard lays out Cockerill's policies are Unionist and pro-Empire. It includes warnings that voting for Liberal candidates will allow Ireland to become independent, and that he views this as a negative thing. Ireland eventually became independent in 1921.
Note: while the postcard spells his name as 'Cockerell', official records of the election spell it as 'Cockerill'.
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