1052 Miles MacInnes

Constituency : Hexham  1885-92, 1993-5

Miles  won  the  new  seat  of  Hexham.

Miles  was  the  son  of  a  general  attached  to  the  East  India  Company. He  was  educated  at  Rugby  and  Oxford. He  started  work  in  a  bank  but  later  became  a  corn  trader  then  railway  director. He  inherited  an  estate  near  Carlisle  in  1876.

Miles  said  the  Welsh  church  needed  to  reform  itself  but  did  not  endorse  disestablishment.

Miles  was  defeated  in  1892  but  his   opponent's  election  was  declared  void. He  held  it  until  1895.

He  died  suddenly  in  1909  aged  79. His  son  and  grandson  became  Anglican  bishops.