678 Henry West

Constituency : Ipswich  1868-74, 1883-86

Henry  took  the  second  seat  at  Ipswich  from  the  Tories.

Henry  was  the  son  of  a  judge  and  a  grandson  of  the  Earl  of  Orford. He  was  educated  at  Eton  and  Oxford. He  became  a  barrister  and  subsequently  Recorder  of  Manchester. He  stood  unsuccessfully  in  1865 losing  out  by  just  6  votes. He  acquired  the  name  "Zephyr". In  1870  he  became  Lord Granville's  brother-in-law.

Henry  was  one  of  the  last  Liberals  to  consciously  style  themselves  a  Whig. His  interventions  were  usually  on  legal  matters.

Henry  was  defeated  in  1874  but  won  his  seat  back  in  a  by-election  in  1883. He  and  Jesse  Collings  were  re-elected  in  1885  but  unseated  on  petition  on  account  of  corruption  by  the  party's  agents.

He  died  in  1893  aged  70.