1126 Richard Strong

Constituency : Camberwell  North  1885-6

Richard  took  the  new  seat  of  Camberwell  North.

Richard  ws  the  son  of  a  flour  merchant. He  was a  member  of  the  Metropolitan  Asylums  Board, a  governor  of  Dulwich  College  and  chairman  of  the  Exmouth  Training  Ship  Committee.

Richard  made  no  parliamentary  contributions  and  did  not  defend  his  seat  in  1886.

In  1888  Richard  was  elected  to  London  County  Council  as  a  Progressive. He  was  a  councillor  until  1904  and  an  alderman  from  then  until  1910.

He  died  in  1915  aged  81.