Lieutenant-Commander Frederick Wolfe Astbury (21 April 1872 – 28 December 1954) was a British businessman and Conservative politician.
[2] In the following year the prime minister, Stanley Baldwin, called an election on the issue of tariff reform.
They felt they could no longer support the government over their failure to impose quotas or prohibitions on imports of textile goods from India and Burma, threatening the commerce of Lancashire.
The group also felt that the National Government, supported in the main by Conservative members, had passed too much "Socialist" legislation, such as that creating the London Passenger Transport Board.
[9][10] A decision on whether he would be adopted as the Conservative candidate at the next election was avoided when he announced he would not be seeking re-election due to poor health.