Wednesday 20 September 2017

1683 Hubert Beaumont




Constituency : Eastbourne  1906-10

Hubert  took  Eastbourne  from  the  Tories.

Hubert  was  the  son  of  Baron  Allendale  , the  former  Liberal  MP  Wentorth  Beaumont. He  was  eduated  at  Eton  and  Oxford. He  stood  for  King's  Lynn  in  1895, Buckingham  in  1900  and  Barnard  Castle  in  1903. The  latter  by-election  was  a  famous  one  where  Labour's  Arthur  Henderson  was  elected. Liberal  headquarters  tried  to  persuade  Hubert  to  withdraw  and  he  came  third.

Hubert  stood  down  in  January  1910.

He  died  in  1922  aged  58.

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