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British politician (1875-1946)

Frank Walter RaffetyOBE (1875 – 8 September 1946) was a Britishbarrister andLiberal Party politician.

He was the son of Charles Walter Raffety, ofHigh Wycombe,Buckinghamshire and attended theRoyal Grammar School, High Wycombe.^[1] In 1898 he was called to the bar at theMiddle Temple, and practised on the Northern Circuit.^[2]

He developed an interest in politics, and became honorary secretary of theSocial and Political Education League. The organisation was established to provide political education to the general public, and in particular to promote moderation over revolution.^[2]^[3] He was also an active member of theEighty Club, an educational group within the Liberal Party.^[2]^[4]

He was selected as Liberal prospective parliamentary candidate forStamford for a general election expected to take place in 1915.^[5]

He unsuccessfully contested theLewisham West by-election in September 1921;

Lewisham West by-election, 1921
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Philip Dawson	9,427	38.9	n/a
	Anti-Waste League	Walter George Windham	8,580	35.4	n/a
	Liberal	Frank Raffety	6,211	25.6	n/a
Majority			847	3.5	n/a
Turnout			24,218	59.2	n/a
	Unionisthold		Swing	n/a

In March of the following year he was elected to theLondon County Council, as a (Liberal-backed)Progressive Party councillor forIslington West;^[6]

1922 London County Council election: Islington West^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive	Henry Mills	5,903	33.6
	Progressive	Frank Raffety	5,746	32.7
	Labour	P.H. Black	3,013	17.2
	Labour	G. Davison	2,894	16.5
Majority			2,733	15.5
	Progressivehold		Swing

At thegeneral election in November 1922 he failed to winBristol West;

General election 1922: Bristol West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	George Gibbs	18,124	62.0	n/a
	Liberal	Frank Raffety	11,100	38.0	n/a
Majority			7,024	24.0	n/a
	Unionisthold		Swing	n/a

A further general election was held in 1923, and Raffety was elected LiberalMember of Parliament (MP) forBath;

General election 1923: Bath
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Frank Raffety	13,694	51.6	+19.6
	Unionist	Charles Foxcroft	12,830	48.4	−1.8
Majority			864	3.2	21.4
Turnout				79.1	−3.3
	Liberalgain fromUnionist		Swing	+10.7

His membership of theCommons was brief, as he was defeated when a furthergeneral election was called in 1924;

General election 1924: Bath
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Charles Foxcroft	16,067	55.8	+7.4
	Liberal	Frank Raffety	8,800	30.6	−21.0
	Labour	Walter Barton Scobell	3,914	13.6	+13.6
Majority			7,267	25.2	28.4
Turnout				84.5	+5.4
	Unionistgain fromLiberal		Swing	+14.2

He again stood as a Liberal candidate atCheltenham in1929;

General election 1929: Cheltenham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Walter Preston	15,279	53.2	+3.7
	Liberal	Frank Raffety	8,533	29.7	−2.0
	Labour	William Ramsey Piggott	4,920	17.1	−1.7
Majority			6,746	23.5	+5.7
Turnout				79.8	−0.5
	Unionisthold		Swing	+2.8

andEast Dorset in1935, but failed to be elected;^[2]

General election 1935: Dorset East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Gordon Hall Caine	25,520	53.5	+9.0
	Liberal	Frank Raffety	11,349	23.8	−16.6
	Labour	Edward Joseph Stocker	10,823	22.7	+14.6
Majority			14,171	29.7	+25.6
Turnout			47,692	74.4
	Conservativehold		Swing	+12.8

Raffety remained active in Liberal party politics, as a speaker. He became the Chairman of the Industrial Co-Partnership Association. In 1943 he was granted thefreedom of the borough of High Wycombe, of which he had been honoraryrecorder since 1905.^[2] In 1945 he was made anOfficer of the Order of British Empire.^[2]

He died at his home inBramley, Surrey in August 1946, aged 71.^[2]

References

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Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

^School Records:http://www.rgs.tonyhare.co.uk/Wycombiensian/1939%20September.pdf Archived 5 October 2015 at theWayback Machine
^^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^gObituary: Mr F W Raffety, The Times, 11 September 1946, p.7
^Deborah Wormell,Sir John Seeley and the Uses of History, Cambridge, 1980
^"Eighty Club".Database of Archives of Non-Governmental Organisations. University of Birmingham. 2007. Retrieved28 December 2008.
^Grantham Journal, Lincolnshire Mar 1914
^LCC Elections, The Times, 3 March 1922, p.12
^London Municipal Notes - Volumes 18-23, London Municipal Society