Saturday 27 August 2016

1307 Archibald Grove




Constituency  : West  Ham  North  1892-5, South  Northamptonshire  1906-10

Archibald  took  West  Ham  North  from  the  Tories  by  33  votes.

Archibald  was  a  captain's  son. He  was  educated  at  Oxford. In  1889  he  became  founding  editor  of  the  New  Review.  He  set  it  at  a  low  price  to  be  accessible  to  all  but  was  later  forced  to  double  it. He  sold  it  on  in  1894. He  fought  Winchester  in  1886.

Archiald  was  defeated  in  1895. He  first  contested  South  Northamptonshire  in  1900.

Archibald  announced  in  1908  he  would  not  stand  again  due  to  health  problems.

Archibald  joined  the  executive  committee  of  the  Anglo-Russian Trade  Bureau  in  1916.

He  died  in  1920  aged  64.

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