956 Walter Wren

Constituency : Wallingford  1880

Walter  recaptured  Wallingford  from  the  Tories  by  41  votes.

Walter  was  from  Hampshire  and  educated  in  Guernsey  and  at  Cambridge,  He  suffered  from  a  spinal  condition. He  became  a  teacher  at  a  preparatory  school  he  founded  for  military  college  and  the  Indian  Civil  Service. He  was  an  anti-aristocratic  Radical.

Walter's  election    was  voided  for  bribery  by  one  of  his  agents. He  stood  unsuccessfully  for  Lambeth  Noth in  1885  and  1886.

In  1881  Walter  joined  the  executive  of  the  newly  formed  International  Arbitration  and  Peace  Association. He  was  a  friend  of  the  American  land  reformer  Henry  George  and  invited  him  to  dine  at  the  Reform  Club  in  1882.

In  1889  Walter  was  elected  to  London  County  Council.

Walter  was  described  as  a  partly  affected Bohemian.

He  died  in  1898  aged  64.