Friday, 13 March 2015

794 Charles Harrison


Constituency  : Bewdley  1874-80

Charles  replaced  the  retiring  Augustus  Anson  at  Bewdley. He  was  a  merchant  who  purchased  a  carpet  manufacturing  business  and  made  it  his  own. He  had  a  narrow  victory  over  the  Tories.

Charles  did  not  speak  in  the  Commons.

Charles  held  the  seat  in  the  1880  election  but  was  unseated  on  petition.

He  died  in  1888  aged  58  after  a  long  illness.

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