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Sir Frank Goldstone
Member of Parliament
for Sunderland
In office
1910–1918Serving with Sir Hamar Greenwood
Preceded byJames Knott
Succeeded byRalph Milbanke Hudson
Personal details
Born(1870-12-07)7 December 1870
Bishopwearmouth, County Durham, England
Died25 December 1955(1955-12-25) (aged 85)
Ipswich, Suffolk, England
Political partyLabour
Alma materBorough Road Training College
OccupationTeacher

Sir Frank Walter Goldstone (7 December 1870 – 25 December 1955) was a British teacher, trade unionist and politician.

Biography

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Goldstone was born in Bishopwearmouth, County Durham (now Sunderland) on 7 December 1870. The third son of a stained-glass artist, he attended Borough Road Traininge College, Isleworth after completing education at Diamond Hall in Millfield.

From 1891 to 1910, Goldstone was an assistant master at Bow Street school in Sheffield. In 1895, he had married Elizabeth Alice Henderson of Whittingham, Northumberland. They had two children, Elsie (born 1897) and Frank (born 1899).

A member of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), he became president of the subgroup National Federation of Class Teachers in 1902, a member of the executive committee of the NUT in 1902 and chair of its law committee in 1904. In 1910, he stepped up his participation in the NUT, serving as organization secretary (1910–1918), assistant secretary (1918–1924) and finally general secretary (1924–1931).

Politics

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Shortly before the December 1910 election, Goldstone was chosen as the Labour candidate for Sunderland, as a late replacement for R. J. Wilson (a member of the Co-operative Society). After winning the seat, he was appointed Labour Chief Whip in 1914. He lost his seat at the 1918 election.

Later life

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Goldstone was knighted by George V at Buckingham Palace on 29 June 1931, the same year he retired as general secretary of NUT.

Subsequently, he served three years as principal of a tutorial college. In 1942 his wife died in Ipswich, and Goldstone followed in the same town on 25 December 1955.

References

  1. The Journal of Education. W. Stewart & Company. 1931. p. 494.

Further reading

  • The coming General Secretary, The Schoolmaster (11 January 1924), 39
  • S. Blake and A. E. Henshall, Schoolmaster and Woman Teacher's Chronicle (6 January 1956)
  • B. Simon, The politics of educational reform, 1920–1940 (1974)
  • R. Barker, Education and politics, 1900–1951: a study of the labour party (1972)

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded bySamuel Storey
and James Knott 		Member of Parliament for Sunderland
Dec. 1910–1918
With: Sir Hamar Greenwood, Bt. 		Succeeded bySir Hamar Greenwood, Bt.
and Ralph Milbanke Hudson
Political offices
Preceded byArthur Henderson Labour Chief Whip
1914–1916 		Succeeded byGeorge Henry Roberts
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Preceded byJohn Wilson Member of the Senate of
the University of Durham
1915–1921 		Succeeded byPeter Lee
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Preceded bySir James Yoxall General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers
1924–1931 		Succeeded byFrederick Mander
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