960 Horace Davey

Constituency : Christchurch  1880-5,  Stockton-on-Tees 1888-92

Horace  recaptured  Christchurch  for  the  Liberals  after  being  nominated  by  the  National  Liberal  Club.

Horace  was  the  son  of  a  prosperous  coal  merchant . He  was  educated  at  Rugby  and  Oxford. He  became  a  barrister  and  quickly  became  renowned. His  protege  Haldane  described  him  as  "the  finest  advocate  on  pure  points  of  law".

In  1885  Horace  tried  to  detach  the  receipt  of  medical  relief  from  other  forms  of  parochial  relief  for  the  purposes  of  determining  the  franchise.

Horace  was  defeated  in  1885. He  was  appointed  Solicitor-General  by  Gladstone  in  1886  but  had  no  seat, being  defeated  at  both  Ipswich  and  Stockport  that  year. He  returned  in  a  by-election  at  Stockton-on-Tees  in  1888  but  lost  the  seat  in  1892.

In  1894  Horace  was  made  a  Lord  of  Appeal  and  raised  to  the  peerage  as  Baron  Davey.

Horace  wanted  to  be  Lord  Chancellor  in  Campbell-Bannerman's  government  and  put  his  name  forward  but  Lord  Crewe  was  chosen  instead.

He  died  of  bronchitis  in  1907  aged  74.