Robert Ascroft

MP, (1847 – 19 June 1899) was a prominent Lancashire solicitor and an English politician.

He was known as the "Workers' Friend" and after his death, a public subscription enabled a statue of him to be erected in Alexandra Park, Oldham.

[1] Robert Ascroft is mentioned in Chapter XVII of Sir Winston Churchill's book 'My Early Life'.

Oldham was a two-member constituency and evidently, Mr Ascroft believed the young Winston -a war hero and celebrity- was ripe for the job.

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