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unusual facts about Liberal Unionist



Baron Jessel

It was created on 8 January 1924 for Sir Herbert Jessel, 1st Baronet, who had earlier represented St Pancras South in Parliament as a Liberal Unionist from 1896 to 1906 and as a Conservative from 1910 to 1918.

Birmingham South by-election, 1911

The by-election was held due to the incumbent Liberal Unionist MP, Charles Howard, becoming the tenth Earl of Carlisle.

George Doughty

Standing as a member of the Liberal Party, Doughty was elected at the 1895 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Great Grimsby, defeating the sitting Liberal Unionist MP Edward Heneage by a majority of 181 votes (2.2%).

Gerald Balfour, 2nd Earl of Balfour

From 1901 Balfour lived at Fisher's Hill House, a large home which he had built by Lutyens in Hook Heath, Woking, Surrey, also living in the rural hamlet by 1911 were Alfred Lyttelton (Lib. U.), Secretary of State for the Colonies (1903-1905) who married into his wider family and the Duke of Sutherland.

London Municipal Society

It was a Liberal Unionist society, and was wound up in 1963, following the legislation that would create the Greater London Council.

St John's, Woking

In 1911 also living in the rural hamlet were Alfred Lyttelton (Lib. U.), Secretary of State for the Colonies (1903-1905) and the Duke of Sutherland.


see also

Frederick Wills

Sir Frederick Wills, 1st Baronet (1838–1909), director of W.D. & H.O. Wills, which later merged into the Imperial Tobacco Company, Liberal Unionist MP for Bristol North 1900–1906

Thomas O'Hagan, 1st Baron O'Hagan

The Liberal Unionist editor of the Belfast Norther Whig, Thomas Macknight, who had been a personal friend of O'Hagan, states in his memoir ULSTER AS IT IS (London, 1896) that he believed O'Hagan would have opposed Gladstone's conversion to Home Rule had he not died when he did.

William Anson

Sir William Anson, 3rd Baronet (1843 – 1914), British jurist and Liberal Unionist politician

William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam

William Henry Wentworth-FitzWilliam (1840–1920), British Liberal, and later Liberal Unionist politician