Ralph Cleworth

Cleworth received a Call to the bar in 1924. He worked as a barrister on the North-Eastearn Circuit.^[3] He became a Queens Counsel in 1947.^[4]

In 1927 Cleworth was Liberal candidate for Armley & Wortley in the Leeds County Borough elections. He was in a three-party contest with Labour and Conservative. He came third polling 15% of the vote.^[5] In 1929 he was Liberal candidate for the Leeds West division of Yorkshire at the UK General Election. Leeds West was a Labour/Unionist marginal that Labour had won in 1923 and 1924. Cleworth's prospects were not good and he finished a distant third as expected. He did not stand for parliament again.^[6]