1619 Henry McLaren

Constituency : Staffordshire  West  1906-10, Bosworth  1910-22

Henry  took   Staffordshire  West  from  the  Liberal  Unionist  Alexander  Henderson.

Henry  was  the  son  of  Charles  McLaren  the  MP  for  Bosworth. He  was  educated  at  Eton  and  Oxford  and  became  a  barrister. He  was  a  prominent  industrialist  and  chaired  a  number  of  companies  in  ship  building  and  iron  and  coal.

Henry  was  private  secretary  to  Lloyd  George  until  1908.

Henry  was  narrowly  defeated  by  a Liberal  Unionist  in  January  1910. His  father  vacated  Bosworth  for  him  in  December.

Henry  supported  fixing  a  minimum  wage  for  the  miners  to  settle  the  strike  in  1912.

Henry  easily  defeated  Labour  as  a  Lloyd  George  supporter  in  1918  but  came  third  in  1922.

Henry  succeeded  his  father  as  Baron  Aberconway  in  1934.

Henry  was  a  keen  horticulturalist  who  bred  rhododendrons.

He  died  in  1953  aged  74. His  youngest  son  Christopher  is  still  alive.