Thursday, 28 April 2016

`1192 Douglas Coghill




Constituency :  Newcastle -under-Lyme  1886-92  , Stoke-upon-Trent  1895-1900  ( LIberal  Unionist ) 1900-06   ( Conservative )

Douglas  unseated  William  Allen  to  take  Newcastle-under-Lyme  for  the  Liberal UNionists.

Douglas  came  from  Cheltenham.

Douglas  was  defeated  in  1892  when  Allen  reclaimed  the  seat.

Douglas  returned  for    Stoke   in  1895.

By  1900  Douglas  had  become  a  Conservative. He  was  defeated  in  1906  by  John  Ward by  over  3,000  votes.

He  died  in  1928   aged  83.

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