Friday, 7 July 2017
1612 Edmund Lamb
Constituency : Leominster 1906-10
Edmund took Leominster from the Tories.
Edmund was the son of a colliery proprietor and landowner in Northumberland. He was educated at the Oratory School, Edgbaston and Oxford. He was a catholic who supported scrapping religious disabilities.
Edmund was a radical who advocated the abolition of the Lords. His maiden speech supported the Pure Beer Bill in 1906.
Edmund was defeated in January 1910. He declined to stand in December or in the 1912 by-election which meant no Liberal stood. However, he remained involved in his local party and became its President.
Edmund was persuaded to stand in 1918 when he faced a couponed Conservative and another Liberal standing as an "Agriculture" candidate who was backed by the Herefordshire Farmers Union and expressed support for Lloyd George. Edmund came second.
Edmund was a member of the Royal Geographical Society. He published a family history.
He died in 1925 aged 61.
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