predecessor parliament successor birth_place constituency_mp death_date death_place citizenship party office term term_start birth_date birthname article_title term_end name
john broadbent arthur hawkyard united kingdom william jowitt robert holliday blackburn nottingham , england ashton-under-lyne 23 september 1939 headingley , england british british labour party lord mayor of leeds 1931 14 november 1935 6 november 1886 frederick brown simpson fred simpson -lrb- politician -rrb-
 23 september 1939 fred simpson
fred simpson -lrb- politician -rrb-

frederick brown simpson -lrb- 6 november 1886 -- 23 september 1939 -rrb- was a british labour party politician .
born in nottingham and in 1922 simpson was elected to leeds city council as an alderman , and in 1931 was lord mayor of the city .
he was a prominent trades unionist , and served as president of the railway clerks ' association from 1932 to 1937 .
he was elected at the 1935 general election as member of parliament -lrb- mp -rrb- for ashton-under-lyne , defeating the conservative mp john broadbent by a majority of only 114 votes .
f b simpson died suddenly while playing golf at headingley , near leeds in september 1939 .
in the by-election for his seat the labour candidate william jowitt was returned unopposed .
