Constituency : Kidderminster 1906-10
Edmund took Kidderminster from the Tories. He defeated the future Tory PM, Stanley Baldwin.
Edmund was the son of a maltster and local landowner . He was educated at Brighton College and Cambridge. Edmund became a philanthropic country gentleman. He served on Hertfordshire County Council from its inception and was chairman of its education committee championing village schools. He stood for Epping in 1900, Maldon in 1886 and Kidderminster in 1900. Edmund became chairman of the Metropolitan Water Board in 1904.
Edmund stood down in January 1910 but tried to win the seat back for the Liberals in December. He narrowly failed.
During the First World War, Edmund left the Liberal Party and signed up to the breakaway Tory faction's new National Party. He stood for them in the Islington East by-election in 1917 but came a distant third.
In 1918 Edmund contested Hertford for his new party, coming second to the independent right winger Noel Pemberton Billing in the absence of a Tory candidate. Neither man was issued with the coupon.
Edmund was knighted in 1928.
Edmund was an accomplished polo player.
Edmund died of a heart attack while chairing a meeting of Hertfordshire County council in 1930, aged 73.
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