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During the next thirty years Royce was heavily engaged on the construction of various railway lines in South Africa, as well as some important public buildings. He married Emma Broedelet, the daughter of a Dutch
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was offering free passage to South Africa for men to build the railways in that country. He accepted a three-year contract, at the end of which he had saved enough money to set up in business on his own account.
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opponent. In 1917, the seat became vacant on the death of the sitting member, but he felt that this was no time for political conflict, and the Liberal candidate was returned unopposed.
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in June 1924, and decided to accept. However, before he was able to do so, he died of a heart attack on a London bus near
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for his Commons seat was held the following month, and won by the Conservative Party candidate
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Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 3)
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in St Martin's-le-Grand. Three months later, he learned that the Government of
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by Charles Woodrooffe Ould, published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd in 1925.
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on behalf of the Labour Party, and held the seat at the
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William Stapleton Royce

English
Labour Party
Member of Parliament
Holland with Boston
Spalding, Lincolnshire
joiner
General Post Office building
Cape Town
missionary
January
December 1910
Conservative Party
Spalding division
Lincolnshire
Liberal
December 1918 general election
Holland-with-Boston division
1922
1923 general elections
Tasmania
Russell Square
resulting by-election
Arthur Dean
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 3)
Craig, F. W. S.
ISBN
0-900178-27-2
"No. 31147"

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