1471 Edward Hain

Constituency  : St  Ives  1900-06  ( Liberal  Unionist  up  to  1904 )

Edward  took  over  from  Thomas  Bolitho  at  St  Ives. He  was  unopposed.

Edward  was  a  leading  shipowner  from  Cornwall. He  was  educated  locally  and  then  worked  in  a  bank  and  with  a  tea  merchant  before  joining  the  family  firm  where  he  urged  a  switch  from  sail  to  steam. Bolitho  provided  much  of  the  finance  for  this. He  was  a  large  landowner  in  West  Cornwall. He  was  a  Methodist  and  temperance  enthusiast. He  was  the  proprietor  of  the  Cornish  Telegraph. He  was  mayor  of  St  Ives  six  times.

In  1903  Edward  declared   his  support  for  Free  Trade  and  said  he  could  no  longer  support  Balfour's  government. The  following  year  he  followed  Devonshire  out  of  the  Liberal  Unionist  Association  and  became  a  Liberal.

Edward's  parliamentary  contributions  were  mainly  on  marine  matters.

In  1906  Edward  declined  to  stand  again.

In  1910  Edward  became  the  President  of  the  Chamber  of  Shipping  in  the  UK. He  was  knighted  the  same  year.

He  died  in  1917  aged 65.