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===Member of Parliament===
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Lunn unsuccessfully ran for the Holmfirth parliamentary by-election in 1912.<ref>(Rossendale
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Lunn was described as “the albest of Labour men in the district” by a Leeds newspaper in 1914.<ref>(Skyrack Courier, 1914)</ref> He was considered for the
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*Craig, F.W.S. (ed.) (1974) British Parliamentary Election Results 1885–1918. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.
*''Daily Herald'' (1912) ‘Holmfirth’, 17 June, p. 12.
* Dundee Evening Telegraph (1912) ‘Retrial Of Liberal M.P.’, 5 June, p. 1.
*''Labour Leader'' (1914) ‘Wakefield Labour Candidate’, 26 February, p. 10.
*Rossendale Free Press (1912) ‘Holmfirth Election’, 22 June, p. 8.
*''Rothwell Times'' (1901) ‘Rothwell District Council Election’, 29 March. Available at: https://archive.org/details/1901rothwelltimescomplete_201910/page/n33/
* Rubinstein, W.D. (2003) Twentieth-Century Britain: A Political History. Macmillan Education UK.
*''Skyrack Courier'' (1914) ‘Nondescript Notes’, 27 February, p. 5.
*''The Science and Art of Mining'' (1942) ‘Obituary’, 30 May, p. 325. Available at: http://www.dmm.org.uk/news19/9420530i.htm (Accessed: 9 June 2024)
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