16 Facts About Isaac Foot

Isaac Foot was a British Liberal politician and solicitor.

Isaac Foot then worked at the Admiralty in London, but returned to Plymouth to train as a solicitor.

Isaac Foot became a member of the Liberal Party, and in 1907 was elected to Plymouth City Council, of which he remained a member for twenty years, serving as Deputy Mayor in 1920.

Isaac Foot was elected as Member of Parliament for Bodmin at a by-election in February 1922, retaining his seat in the general elections of 1922 and 1923.

Isaac Foot lost his seat in October 1924 but regained it in the 1929 general election, when the Liberals took all five Cornish seats.

Isaac Foot held the seat until he lost again in the 1935 general election.

Isaac Foot's championing of the poor of the subcontinent earnt him the sobriquet of "the member for the Depressed Classes".

Isaac Foot fought two more elections, at St Ives in 1937, and Tavistock in 1945, losing both.

Isaac Foot served as President of the Liberal Party from 1947 to 1948.

Isaac Foot was a Methodist local preacher and served as Vice President of the Methodist Conference.

Isaac Foot served as deputy-chairman of the Cornwall Quarter Sessions in 1945, and was chairman from 1953 to 1955, a distinction rarely granted to a solicitor.

Isaac Foot built up a library of over 70,000 books at his home near Callington and would wake at five in the morning in order to read them.

Isaac Foot was married to Eva Mackintosh, daughter of Angus Mackintosh.

Isaac Foot married Catherine Elizabeth Taylor, nee Dawe was born on Liskeard 1894 and in St Germans in 1951, who survived him.

Hugh's son, Paul Isaac Foot, was a prominent campaigning journalist and political activist, being a member of the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party.

Isaac Foot died on 13 December 1960 in his sleep at his home in Callington, Cornwall, England.