Constituency : Denbighshire West 1892-1918
John removed the last Liberal Unionist William Cornwallis-West at West Denbighshire by a big margin.
John was the son of the Flint MP of the same name who had just stepped down . He was educated at Cambridge. He travelled the world in 1884-85 and published an account of it. He was an elder at the Calvinist Mynydd Seion chapel for 68 years.
John's particular interests were India and temperance. He sat on the Royal Commission on the Licensing Laws between 1996 and 1999, He supported disestablishment in Wales and was a commissioner for the property of the church in Wales fin 1914. He pressed for parliamentary representation for the University of Wales.
In 1893 John married the daughter of his fellow MP William Caine.
John was created a baronet in 1903.
John didn't make his maiden speech until 1912 when he expressed concern abut increased liquor consumption in India.
John was chairman of the Welsh Liberal Parliamentary Party from 1912 to 1918 when he stood down as an MP.
John was raised to the peerage in 1918 as Baron Clwyd.
He died in 1955 aged 92.
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