Tuesday 2 February 2016

1109 Francis Otter



Constituency : Louth  1885-6

Francis  won  the  new seat  of  Louth.

Francis  was  educated  at  Gainsborough,  Rugby  and  Oxford. He  became  a  barrister. He  also  worked  as  a  private  tutor.

Francis'  only  parliamentary  contribution  was  to  ask  about  the  promised  reforms  in  Armenia  under  the  Treaty  of  Berlin . He  voted  against  Home  Rule.

Francis  felt  "too   ill  to  be  nominated  on  the  day  nominations  closed  in  1886   giving  the  Tories   a  walk  over  in  a  safe   Liberal  seat  .

He  died  in  1895  aged  64.

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