Wednesday 14 May 2014

507 Edward Manningham Buller


Constituency  :  North  Staffordshire  1832-41, Stafford  1841-7, North  Staffordshire  1865-74

Edward took   North   Staffordshire  from  the  Tories,  making  a  comeback  after  18  years  outside   Parliament.

Edward  was  a  baronet's  son  educated  at  Eton. In  1847  he  was  defeated  trying  to  get  elected  for   his  first  constituency.

Edward  became  a   baronet  in  1866. He  supported  Gladstone's  attempts  to  impede  Disraeli's   Reform  Bill. He  retired  in  1874.

He  died  in  1882  aged  82.

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