Henry Butler Ratcliffe

Henry Butler Ratcliffe (1845 – 9 April 1929)[1] was a British Conservative Party politician.

He retired from Parliament and did not contest the 1922 general election, when Bradford Central was won by the Labour Party candidate, William Leach.

[2] Ratcliffe was born in 1845 and attended Bradford Grammar School, before joining his father’s butcher’s business,[3] later becoming President of the Yorkshire Federation of Butchers.

[4] He served as a Bradford City councillor in 1881–83 and from 1891, and became leader of the Conservative Party on the Council and chairman of a number of council committees.

[4] Outside politics, Radcliffe served as President of the Bradford Third Equitable Building Society,[4] and for over sixty years was a Church of England lay reader in the diocese of Bradford.