Friday 25 March 2016

1158 Henry Sturgis




Constituency : South  Dorset  1885-6

Henry  won  the  new seat  of  South  Dorset.

Henry  was  the  son  of  an  American  banker. He  was  educated  at  Eton  and  Oxford. He  was  a  partner  in  Barings  and  a  director  of  London  and  Westminster  Bank. He  was  Henry  Brand's  son-in-law.

Henry  never  spoke  in  Parliament.

Henry  was  defeated  in  1886.

He  died  on  his  82nd  birthday.

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