Arthur Ratcliffe (17 February 1882 – 3 May 1963)[1] was a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Leek division of Staffordshire from 1931 to 1935.
Ratcliffe stood for Parliament only once, at the 1931 general election, when he overturned the comfortable majority of Leek's sitting Labour Party, William Bromfield, winning the seat[2] with a majority of 2.8%.
[3] Ratcliffe did not defend the seat at the next election, in 1935, when Bromfield was returned in a two-person contest with a National Labour Party candidate.
[4] He owned a building firm and built a house for himself on a hill at Ecton in Staffordshire, about 12 miles from the town of Leek.
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