From Workhouse To Westminster - The Life Story Of Will Crooks, M.P.

George Haw

• Publisher: Gallaher Press
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN:
  9781473384880
• Print ISBN:
  9781446521328

A fascinating biography of a man who came from the poorest class in 19th century London, who rose up through society and became the first working class Mayor of London.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Dedication
• Preface
• Contents
• List of Plates
• Introduction
• Chapter I. Earliest Years in a One-Roomed Homb
• Chapter II. As a Child in the Workhouse
• Chapter III. Schools and Schoolmasters
• Chapter IV. Round the Haunts of his Boyhood
• Chapter V. In Training for a Craftsman
• Chapter VI. Tramping the Country for Work
• Chapter VII. One of London’s Unemployed
• Chapter VIII. The College at the Dock Gates
• Chapter IX. From the Cheering Multitude to a Sorrow-Laden Home
• Chapter X. A Labour Member’s Wages
• Chapter XI. On the London County Council
• Chapter XII. Two of his Monuments
• Chapter XIII. The Task of his Life Begins
• Chapter XIV. The Man who Fed the Poor
• Chapter XV. Turning Workhouse Children into Useful Citizens
• Chapter XVI. On the Metropolitan Asylums Board
• Chapter XVII. A Bad Boys’ Advocate
• Chapter XVIII. Proud of the Poor
• Chapter XIX. First Working-Man Mayor in London
• Chapter XX. The King’s Dinner—and Others
• Chapter XXI. The Man who Paid Old-age Pensions
• Chapter XXII. Election to Parliament
• Chapter XXIII. Advent of the Political Labour Party
• Chapter XXIV. The Living Wage for Men and Women
• Chapter XXV. Free Trade in the Name of the Poor
• Chapter XXVI. Preparing for the Unemployed Act
• Chapter XXVII. Agitation in the House of Commons
• Chapter XXVIII. The Queen Intervenes
• Chapter XXIX. Home Life and Some Engagements
• Chapter XXX. Colonising England
• Chapter XXXI. The Revival of Bumbledom
• Chapter XXXII. Appeal to the People
• Index