1076 Charles Gaskell

Constituency  : Morley  1885-92

Charles  won  the  new  seat  of  Morley.

Charles  was  the  son  of  a  former  Conservative  MP. He  was educated  at  Eton  and  Cambridge. He  became  a  barrister. He  first  stood  for  Pontefract  in  1868  and  at  a  by-election  in  Knaresborough  in  1881.

Charles  made  little  contribution  in  Parliament.

Charles  stood  down  in  1892. He  became  chairman  of  West  Riding  County  Council  the  following  year.

Charles  married  Catherine  Wallop  an  aristocratic  minor  author  who  played  host  to  Henry  Adams, Henry  James  and  Thomas  Hardy. Adams  had  a  correspondence  with  him  for  the  rest  of  his  life.

He  died  in  1919  aged  76.