Was Jerome K Jerome Vice President of the Oxford University Labour party?
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Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859-1927)
An entry on him in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography by Damian Atkinson, makes no mention whatever of Oxford University, nor is there any of the Labour Party, nor indication that he was interested in politics.
His parents both died when he was in his early teens and he led a penurious existence for much of his life, having left school at fourteen. Too old for the British Army he was an ambulance driver in the French Army in the first world war.
Atkinson mentions Jerome's 1926 autobiography, but says nothing about any membership of the Labour Party. He was honoured with the freedom of Walsall, just before his death in 1927, and The Oxford University Labour Club certainly existed at the time, having been founded in 1919.
Jerome clearly had connections with Oxforshire as that is where his ashes were interred - St Mary's Church, Ewelme.
So while it is conceivable that he could have become a member of the Labour Party later in life, his biographer makes no reference to it.
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