William Morse (British politician)

[3] Their second son, Stanley, was killed on active service with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in 1941.

[2] He served as President of Swindon Chamber of Commerce and was a Freemason for 40 years, Past Master of the Royal Sussex Lodge of Emulation, 355 and held the office of Provincial Grand Standard Bearer.

In 1923 he was one of three Primitive Methodists chosen to represent his denomination on the British Council of the World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship through the Churches.

He narrowly failed to defeat the sitting Conservative MP, Sir Robert Sanders, losing by 119 votes in a three-cornered contest.

Boltlz's intervention threatened to split the anti-Tory vote depriving Morse, who was said to be a strong candidate, of a seat he was otherwise predicted to hold.

[12] In the 1929 general election Morse switched Somerset constituencies, this time standing for the seaside seat of Weston-Super-Mare.

In a three-cornered contest in which the Labour candidate Constance Borrett lost her deposit, Morse came second to the sitting Conservative MP Lord Erskine losing by 5,679 votes.