Constituency : Huddersfield 1859-65 , 1868-86
Edward was a Quaker scholar who published Charmione : a tale of the great Athenian Revolution in 1858. He is best remembered for being John Bright's brother-in-law.
Edward was first elected for Huddersfield in 1859. In 1861 he organised the Huddersfield College Prize Medals for history and English declamation. He relinquished the seat to Thomas Crosland in 1865 but returned to the Commons in a by-election following Crosland's death in March 1868. In 1875 he acquired an estate in Gloucestershire.
Edward was a strong opponent of women's suffrage caused some amusement in a discussion in women's suffrage by raising the prospect of a bill not passing because the Attorney-General had eloped with the Solicitor-General. He helped form an association of MPs to resist women's demands.
Edward followed his brother-in-law into the Liberal Unionists declaiming in the House " let us too take our stand upon the Union , and say that for us there can only be one England , one law, one Parliament and one throne." It did not help him in Huddersfield and he lost his seat to a Gladstonian.
Edward died in 1900 aged 71.
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