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'''William Pelham Bullivant''' (1858 - 26 March 1910) was a businessman and [[Conservative Party|Conservative]] politician.<ref name=deaths>{{Cite news|title=Deaths|newspaper=''The Times''|date=29 March 1910|page=1}}</ref><ref name=gazz>''London Gazette'', issue 28367, 10 May 1910, p.3328</ref><ref>Register of Births, Hackney District, 1Q 1858, Vol.1b p.336</ref>
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'''William Pelham Bullivant''' (1858 - 26 March 1910) was a businessman and [[Conservative Party|Conservative]] politician.<ref name=deaths>{{Cite news|title=Deaths|newspaper=''The Times''|date=29 March 1910|page=1}}</ref> <ref name=gazz>''London Gazette'', issue 28367, 10 May 1910, p.3328</ref> <ref>Register of Births, Hackney District, 1Q 1858, Vol.1b p.336</ref>
   
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Bullivant was the proprietor of a wire rope manufacturing business in [[Millwall]], and a large employer in the area.<ref name=saint>Andrew Saint, ''Politics and the people of London: the London County Council, 1889-1965'', Conntinuum, 1989, ISBN 9781852850296, p.29</ref> Nominated by the Conservatives to contest the first elections to the [[London County Council]] in January 1889, his prominence as an employer allowed him to win a seat in the largely working class [[Poplar (UK Parliament constituency)|Tower Hamlets (Poplar)]] electoral district.<ref name=saint/><ref>{{Cite news|newspaper=''The Times''|title=The County Councils|date=14 December 1888|page=14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=The County Councils - London Polls|newspaper=''The Times''|date=18 January 1889|page=9}}</ref> He took his seat as a member of the Conservative-backed [[Moderate Party]] on the council, which formed the opposition group.<ref name=saint/> He held the seat for only a single three-year term, and was defeated by [[Will Crooks]], a [[Labour Progressive Party|Labour-Progressive]] candidate in 1892.<ref>{{Cite news|title=The London County Council Election|newspaper=''The Times''|date=7 March 1892|page=10}}</ref>
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Bullivant was the proprietor of a wire rope manufacturing business in [[Millwall]], and a large employer in the area.<ref name=saint>Andrew Saint, ''Politics and the people of London: the London County Council, 1889-1965'', Conntinuum, 1989, ISBN 9781852850296, p.29</ref> Nominated by the Conservatives to contest the first elections to the [[London County Council]] in January 1889, his prominence as an employer allowed him to win a seat in the largely working class [[Poplar (UK Parliament constituency)|Tower Hamlets (Poplar)]] electoral district.<ref>{{Cite news|newspaper=''The Times''|title=The County Councils|date=14 December 1888|page=14}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite news|title=The County Councils - London Polls|newspaper=''The Times''|date=18 January 1889|page=9}}</ref> <ref name=saint/> He took his seat as a member of the Conservative-backed [[Moderate Party]] on the council, which formed the opposition group.<ref name=saint/> He held the seat for only a single three-year term, and was defeated by [[Will Crooks]], a [[Labour Progressive Party|Labour-Progressive]] candidate in 1892.<ref>{{Cite news|title=The London County Council Election|newspaper=''The Times''|date=7 March 1892|page=10}}</ref>
   
 
Bullivant stood unsuccessfully as Conservative parliamentary candidate at the 1895 and 1900 general elections.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Constitutional Yearbook 1903|publisher=Conservative Central Office|year=1903|page=161|url=http://archive.org/stream/constitutionaly04unkngoog#page/n183/mode/2up}}</ref> He also failed to gain a seat on the [[London School Board]] in 1896.<ref>{{Cite news|title=London School Board|date=13 November 1896|page=7|newspaper=The Times}}</ref>
 
Bullivant stood unsuccessfully as Conservative parliamentary candidate at the 1895 and 1900 general elections.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Constitutional Yearbook 1903|publisher=Conservative Central Office|year=1903|page=161|url=http://archive.org/stream/constitutionaly04unkngoog#page/n183/mode/2up}}</ref> He also failed to gain a seat on the [[London School Board]] in 1896.<ref>{{Cite news|title=London School Board|date=13 November 1896|page=7|newspaper=The Times}}</ref>
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