Wilfred Wellock

Who was Wilfred Wellock?

Wilfred Wellock was a socialist Gandhian and sometime Labour politician and MP.

He was imprisoned as a conscientious objector in the First World War.

He was elected at Member of Parliament for Member of Parliament for Stourbridge at a by-election in February 1927, having unsuccessfully contested the seat in 1923 and 1924. He was re-elected in 1929, but at the 1931 general election he was defeated by the Conservative Party candidate. Wellock stood again at the 1935 election, but did not regain his seat.

He was a prolific pamphleteer.

Wellock's work was admired by Aldous Huxley, who stated in his book Science, Liberty and Peace that Wellock and Ralph Borsodi's work constituted a "tiny piece of decentralist leaven" within the "whole large lump of contemporary society".