953 Frederick Inderwick

Constituency : Rye  1880-5

Frederick  captured  Rye  for  the  Liberals.

Frederick  was  the  son  of  a  naval  captain. He  was  educated  privately  in  Leicestershire  then  went  to  Cambridge.He  became  a  barrister. He  stood  unsuccessfully  at  Cirencester  in  1868  then  Dover  in  1874. He  wrote  on  political  and  legal  history  and  was  an  antiquarian.

Frederick  spoke  in  favour  of  the  Employers  Liability  Bill in  1880. He  spoke  in  favour  of  abolishing  the  extraordinary  tithe  on  hops  in  1883. He  supported  married  women's  property  rights  and  the  Infants  Bill  of  1884  but  not  female  suffrage. He  believed  "that  the  extension  of  the  franchise  to  women  would  be  a  calamity  to  the  country, because  it  would  add  tens  of  thousands  to  that  already  too  numerous  class  of  electors  who  never  knew  their  own  minds".

In  1901  Frederick  represented  a  claimant  for  the  Duke  of  Portland's  millions

Frederick  was  Mayor  of  Winchelsea  in  1892-3  and  1902-03. He  is  remembered  for  preserving  Winshelsea's  Municipal  Corporation  so  as  not  to  diminish   its  status  as  a  Cinque  port. It  is  still  in  existence  today.

He  died  in  1904  aged  68.