Monday, 22 December 2014

714 Chandos Wren-Hoskyns


Constituency : Hereford  1869-74

Chandos  was  one  of  two  new  Liberals  replacing  the  incumbents  at  Hereford  after  the  election  had  to  be  re-run.

Chandos  was  the  son  of  a  local  baronet. He  married  a  descendant  of  Christopher  Wren.
He  was  educated  at  Oxford  and  became  a  barrister.

Chandos's  main  interest  was  in  land  reform  and  he  wrote  a  number  of  works  on  the  subject  some  of  them  sponsored  by  the  Cobden  Club.

He  died  in  1876  aged  64.

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