Man Who Removed Mace From Commons.
The death of Mr. F. N. Charrington, who removed the mace from iU> place in the House of Commons in 1915 as a protest against a Bill which he claimed would make all partners in the liquor traffic, occurred to-day. He was a prominent mission worker.
Apart from the mace incident, Mr. Charrington achieved fame by attacking the Football Association as the greatest hindrance to recruiting in the United Kingdom, He was born at London in 1850. He founded the Tower Hamlets Mission. He was chairman of the great temperance and no compensation demonstration and the purity demonstration in Hyde Park which advanced the Criminal Law Amendment Act.
Mr. Charrington owned the Island of Osea, off the coast of Essex, where he founded a temperance and seaside resort, including a home for inebriates of the upper class. He provided a free tea every Sunday for 700 hungry men and women.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 22, 4 January 1936, Page 6
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