1. Sir John Tudor Walters PC was a Welsh architect, surveyor and Liberal Party politician.
12 Facts About Tudor Walters
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Tudor Walters served as Paymaster General under David Lloyd George from 1919 to 1922 and briefly in 1931 under Ramsay MacDonald.
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Tudor Walters served as Paymaster General in the Government of David Lloyd George from 1919 to 1922 and was sworn of the Privy Council in 1919.
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Tudor Walters lost his seat at Sheffield at the 1922 general election.
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Tudor Walters tried unsuccessfully to get back into the House of Commons in 1923 at Pudsey and Otley in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
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Tudor Walters again stood for election to Parliament at the 1929 general election as Liberal candidate for the Cornish seat of Penryn and Falmouth.
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Ultimately Tudor Walters gained the seat from the Conservatives with a majority of 1,138 votes, with the Labour candidate finishing a relatively close third.
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Tudor Walters was briefly Paymaster-General from September to November 1931 under Ramsay MacDonald.
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Tudor Walters stood down from parliament at the 1931 general election.
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Tudor Walters is best known for the Tudor Walters Report that appeared just as the World War was ending in November 1918 and influenced British housing policy for a century.
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Tudor Walters was inspired by the garden city movement, calling for spacious low-density developments and semi-detached houses built to a high construction standard.
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Tudor Walters's Report influenced the Housing and Town Planning Act of 1919.