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Northfield, a parish in the upper division of the hundred of Halfshire, county Worcester, 6 miles South-West. of Birmingham, its post town, and 2 West of the King's Norton station on the Gloucester railway. It is situated on the small river Rea, and on the road from Birmingham to Worcester.
Jocelyn Cadbury was born in Birmingham in 1946, [1] the son of Laurence Cadbury and Joyce (née Mathews), [2] and the younger brother of Adrian Cadbury and Dominic Cadbury.He was educated at Eton College and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a degree in Economics and Anthropology.
Maclean contested the Birmingham Northfield seat in the general election of 2015, finishing second behind the incumbent Labour Party MP Richard Burden, who won a majority of 2,509 votes. [10] [11] She voted for the United Kingdom (UK) to remain within the European Union (EU) in the June 2016 membership referendum. [8]
The Conservatives therefore held the Birmingham Northfield seat for the first time in 27 years. This result was reversed when Laurence Turner of the Labour Party recaptured the seat at the 2024 general election with a majority of 14.3%. Opposition parties. The Conservative candidate for 2015, MacLean, came within 5.9% of winning the seat.
Turner was selected as the candidate for Birmingham Northfield at short notice at the beginning of the 2024 general election campaign, when existing candidate Alex Aitken had to step down for "personal reasons". [3] On 4 July 2024, he was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Northfield with 14,929 votes (39.6%) and a majority of ...
A mission was established in 1918 in Steel Road. In 1921 it was called St Bride and the priest, George Mesher had three boarders, Frank Warwick and his family.
The Birmingham, Northfield by-election of 28 October 1982 was held after the death of Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Jocelyn Cadbury on 31 July 1982. The seat was gained by the Labour Party in a defeat for Margaret Thatcher's government, ironically just after opinion polls showed an upswing in Conservative support following the victorious Falklands War campaign months earlier.
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