Sidney Woolf

Sidney Woolf (16 June 1837 – September, 1918) was an English pottery manufacturer and a Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1885.

Life

He was the son of Lewis Woolf, a china merchant of London, who had ventured into the pottery business at Ferrybridge, Yorkshire.[1] He was educated at University College, London and at Frankfurt. He was involved in his father's pottery business and in 1857 had a large pottery built called the "Australian Pottery" which he and his brothers ran with the Ferrybridge Potteries at Knottingley.[1] On 29 October 1864, he was one of the leading citizens of the town who formed the Knottingley Town Hall & Mechanics’ Institute Company Limited and he became its chairman.[2] He was also chairman of Knottingley school board.[3]

At the 1880 general election Woolf was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Pontefract. He held the seat until 1885.[4]

Family

Woolf married Isabel Nunes Benvenuta Carvalho, daughter of David Nunes Carvalho of London in 1860. Her brother Solomon Nunes Carvalho was a travel photographer.

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References
  1. Yorkshire Potteries, Pots and Potters
  2. Knottingley Ferrybridge Online - Terry Spencer Knottingley Town Hall
  3. Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1881
  4. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "P" (part 2)
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Samuel Waterhouse
Hugh Childers		 Member of Parliament for Pontefract
1880 – 1885
With: Hugh Childers		 Succeeded by
Rowland Winn


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