Sunday, 3 April 2016

1167 Greville Vernon




Constituency  : Ayrshire  South  1886-92 ( Liberal  Unionist )

Greville  was  one  of  the  new   Liberal  Unionists  defeating  the  Gladstonian  MP  Eugene  Wason  by  5  votes.

Greville  was  the  son  of  Baron  Lyvedon , a  former  Cabinet  minister  in  Palmerston's  first  ministry.

Greville  asked  one  parliamentary  question  about  fishing  rights.

Greville   stepped  down  in  1892. Wason  regained  the  seat  in  another  tight  contest.

He  died  in  1909  aged  73.

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