1457 Corrie Grant

Constituency :  Rugby  1900-10

Corrie  recaptured  Rugby  from  the  Tories.

Corrie  was  the  son  of  a  Nonconformist  brewer  who  had  gone  to  prison  for  non-payment  of  church  rates. He  was  educated  at  the  City  of  London  School  and  became  first  a  journalist  and  then  a  barrister. Corrie  was  something  of  a  perennial  candidate, standing  at  Woodstock  at  a  by-election  in  1885, Birmingham  West  ( 1892 ), Rugby  ( 1895 )  and  Harrow  ( 1899 ).

Corrie  feared  that  Campbell-Bannerman  might  be  an  indolent P.M.  but  was  soon  describing  him  to  C.P. Scott  as  "  the  first  Radical  premier  we  have  ever  had."

Corrie  was  chairman  of  the  Police  and  Sanitary  Parliamentary  Committee  in  1907.

Corrie  was  a  frequent  speaker  on  a  number  of  topics.

Corrie  stood  down  in  January  1910.

He  died  in  1924  aged  74.