976 Frederick Lehmann

Constituency : Evesham  1880-1

Frederick  stood  for  Evesham  after  Daniel  Ratclif's  election  was  voided  and  won  by  two  votes.

Frederick  was  born  in  Hamburg  and  was  a  successful  steel  merchant .  He  was  also  a  partnr  in  an  engineeering  firm . He  was  a  musician  and  art  collector  and   friends  with  Charles  Dickens , Wilkie  Collins  and  Robert  Browning.  He  stood  for  Middlesex  in  1874  and  Waterford  in  1877. The  Times  described  him  as  being  on  the  "left  wing"  of  the  party.

A  petition  was  lodged  against  Frederick's  election  and  after  a  scrutiny  of  the  votes  he  was  found  to  have  lost  by  one  vote. That  ended  Liberal  representation  in  Evesham, the  Tories  holding  the  seat  until  its  abolition  in  1950.

He died  in  1891  aged  65. His  son  Rudolf  became  a  longer-lasting  Liberal  MP.