Wilfred Wellock (2 January 1879 – 22 July 1972)[1] 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 (MP) for Member of Parliament (MP) 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.[2]
Wellock was an active member of both the No More War Movement[3] and the Peace Pledge Union.[4] He was a prolific pamphleteer. Wellcock was a vegetarian.[5]
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".[6]