638 John Stapleton

Constituency : Berwick-upon-Tweed  1852-3, 1857-9, 1868-74

John  managed  to  reclaim  his  seat  which  he  lost  to  the  Tories  in  1859.

John  was  educated  at  Edinburgh  and  then  in  Germany. He  was  a  barrister. He  was  unseated  on  petition  in  1853. John  was  on  the  board  of  the  Royal  British  Bank  which  failed  in  1856  but  doesn't  seem  to  have  taken  a  loan  from  it.

John  is  quoted  in  Das  Kapital   for  his  remark " If  China  should  become  a  great  manufacturing  country , I  do  not  see  how  the  manufacturing  population of  Europe  could  sustain  the  contest  without  descending  to  the  level  of  their  competitors".

John  was  defeated  in  1874.

He  died  in  1891  aged  75.