Progressive Party (London)

The Progressive Party was a political party aligned to the Liberal Party that contested municipal elections in the United Kingdom.

History
It was founded in 1888 by a group of Liberals and leaders of the labour movement. It was also supported by the Fabian Society, and Sidney Webb was one of its councillors. In the first elections of the London County Council (LCC) in January 1889 the Progressive Party won 70 of the 118 seats. It lost power in 1907 to the Municipal Reform Party (a Conservative organisation) under Richard Robinson.

Leaders

 * 1889: Thomas Farrer
 * 1890: James Stuart
 * 1892: Charles Harrison
 * 1898: Thomas McKinnon Wood
 * 1908: John Benn
 * 1918: John Scott Lidgett

Members
• Henrietta Adler

• Arthur Acland Allen

• Joseph Allen Baker

• Sir John Benn

• Frank Briant

• Charles Roden Buxton

• William Augustus Casson

• Henry Chancellor

• James William Cleland

• Ben Cooper

• George Cooper

• Sir Edwin Cornwall

• Sir Evan Cotton

• Rosamond Davenport Hill

• Willoughby Dickinson

• Garnham Edmonds

• Maurice de Forest

• Hugh Fullerton

• James Gilbert

• Harold Glanville

• Harry Gosling

• George Hardy

• Sir Percy Harris

• Stewart Headlam

• John Stanley Holmes

• Emslie Horniman

• Richard Lambert

• Hugh Lea

• John Scott Lidgett

• Edward Martell

• Charles McCurdy

• John McDougall

• Thomas McKinnon Wood

• Miriam Moses

• Oswald Partington, later Lord Doverdale

• Alfred Salter

• Alfred Henry Scott

• Edward Smallwood

• Evan Spicer

• Frederick Verney

• Graham Wallas

• David Waterlow

• Walter Baldwyn Yates

• Alfred William Yeo

London Reform Union
In 1892 the London Reform Union was formed as the propaganda arm of the party.