1386 Lord Alwyne Compton

Constituency : Biggleswade  1895-1906  ( Liberal  Unionist ), Brentford 1910-11  ( Conservative )

Lord  Alwyne  unseated  George  Russell  in  a  close  contest.

Lord  Alwyne  was  a  son  of  the  Marquess  of  Northampton. He  was  educated  at  Eton  and  then  joined  the  army. In 1882  he  became  adide-de-camp  to  the  Viceroy  of  India. He  became  a  lieutenant  and  fought  in  the  Sudan  campaign  in  1884. He  resigned  from  the  army  in  1886.

When  the  Boer  War  broke  out  Lord  Alwyne  rejoined  the  army  as  a  captain. He  won  the  DSO  in  South  Africa  and  was  promoted  to  major  in  1901  In  1901  he  criticised  the  War  Office  for  not  maintaining  adequate  supplies  in  the  misguided  belief   that   the  war  would  be  short.  He  was  unopposed  in  1900.

Lord  Alwyne  was  heavily  defeated  in  1906. In  January  1910  he  stood  for  Brentford  as  a  Conservative  and  was  returned.

Lord  Alwyne  resigned  his  seat  in  March of  the   following  year.

He  died   nine  months  later,   aged  56.