1277 Charles Fleming

Constituency : Doncaster  1892-5

Charles  re-took  Doncaster  after  the  1888  by-election  win  of  the  Liberal  Unionists' s  Henry Wentworth-Fitzwilliam.

Charles  was  a  privately  educated  Mancunian  who  had  been  working  for  the  Indian  Civil  Service  in  Bombay. He  became  a  barrister. He  was  unsuccessful  at  Pontefract  in  1886.

Charles  made  only  three  contributions  in  Parliament  but  one  was  an  effective  speech  in  support  of  the  eight  hour  day  in  which  he  castigated  the  Lib-Lab  MPs  of  the  North East  for  seeking  to  maintain  the  Northumberland  miners'  competitive  advantage.

Charles  had  a  major  falling  out  with  the  Doncaster  Liberal  Council  who  de-selected  him  in  1894. In  1895  therefore  he  stood  unsuccessfully  in  Dudley.

Charles  had  largely  given  up  on  the  law  and  made  a  number  of  unwise  investments  in  a  newspaper, Australian  mines  and  French  musical  theatre  which  all  failed  making  him  bankrupt  in  1898.

He  died  in  1904  aged  65.