Charles Summersby

Charles Harold Summersby (1882 – 13 August 1961) was a British draper and Liberal National politician.

He was educated locally until the age of fourteen when he left school and moved to London to serve a four-year apprenticeship in the drapery business.

[2] After his apprenticeship Summersby became a buyer for the Derry & Toms department store in Kensington and in 1912 started his own business.

He won a by-election there on 28 January 1936 standing as a Municipal Reform Party candidate by 485 votes to the 327 gained by his Labour opponent Samuel Campbell.

[2] Summersby was selected to fight Shoreditch at the 1931 general election as a Liberal National and defeated the sitting Labour MP, Ernest Thurtle.