Tuesday, 3 December 2013
336 Henry Portman
Constituency : Shaftesbury 1852-7, Dorset 1857-85
Henry was the son of Viscount Portman and a grandson of the Earl of Harewood. He was educated at Eton and Oxford.He was one of the largest landowners in London.
Henry was a champion of localism. He disliked centralisation so much he opposed the state collection of statistics. In 1877 he presided over the committee on the Metropolitan Street Improvements Bill.
Henry stood down in 1885 when the county was split into three single-member constituencies.
Henry was a Liberal Unionist after 1886. He succeeded to his father's title in 1888. In 1909 he declared he would be supporting the Unionists at the next election over Lloyd George's Budget.
He died in 1919 aged 90, the only Liberal MP elected in 1859 to survive beyond the First World War.
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