Mont Follick

Who was Mont Follick?

Dr. Mont Follick was a British Labour Party politician, a campaigner for spelling reform, polyglot and advocate of decimal currency. He was Member of Parliament for Loughborough from 1945 to 1955, having previously held the post of Professor of English at the University of Madrid in Spain. He had been adopted by the Loughborough Labour Party in 1936 as prospective parliamentary candidate but had a long wait because of the war years before being elected. In 1949 and again in 1952 he introduced private member's bills in the UK parliament for the reform of English spelling. He also bought the Loughborough Labour Party's current Building Unity House in 1947.

Follick was educated at the Sorbonne, Halle and Padua. He served as secretary to the Aga Khan, Sir Robert Philp and Mulay Hafid. He stood unsuccessfully for the Parliamentary constituencies of Ashford, East Surrey and West Fulham before his successful bid for Loughborough in 1945.

Follick was also the founder and proprietor of the Regent School of Languages.