Bill Boaks
Lieutenant Commander William George Boaks DSC (25 May 1904 – 4 April 1986) was a British Royal Navy officer who became an eccentric political campaigner for road safety. He died at the age of 81 as a result of a road traffic accident. His record of five votes, the fewest ever recorded for a candidate in a British by-election, set in 1982 and held jointly since 1988, still stands as of 2010.
Read more about Bill Boaks: Origins, First Candidacy, Political Views, Attitude To Race Relations, Road Safety, Litigant, Later Life, Death and Legacy
Famous quotes containing the word bill:
“Wake from thy nest, robin redbreast!
Sing, birds, in every furrow,
And from each bill let music shrill
Give my fair Love good morrow!”
—Thomas Heywood (1575?–1650)