1229 Herbert Leon

Constituency  : Buckingham  1891-5

Herbert  ensured  that  the  Liberals   held  on  to  Buckingham  after  Edmund  Verney  was  expelled.

Herbert  was  the  son  of  a  Jewish  stockbroker. He  himself  was  a  financier. He  was  a  director  of  the  Anglo-American  Telegraph  Company.

Herbert  increased  his  majority  in  1892   despite  a  newspaper  slander  that  he  advocated  horse  racing  and  debauchery  on  Sunays  for  which  he  later  won  damages . He  lost  in  1895.

Herbert  stood  unsuccessfully  at  Handsworth  in  1906.

Herbert  was  created  a  baronet  in  1911.

Herbert  developed  the  Bletchley  Park estate , of  WWII  code breaking  fame. He  entertained  Lloyd  George  when  he  was  Prime  Minister.

He  died  in  1926  aged  76.  A  school  is  named  after  him.