1665 Philip Wilson

Constituency : St  Pancras  South  1906-10

Philip  unseated  the  Liberal  Unionist  Herbert  Jessel  by  61  votes.

Philip   was  born  in  Kendal. Philip  was  educated  at  Kendal  GRammar  School  and  Oxford.

Philip  was  a  journalist.

Jessel   regained  the  seat  fairly  easily  in  January  1910. Philip  switched  to  Appleby  in  December  but  was  unsuccessful.

Instead,   Philip  became  the  parliamentary  correspondent  for  the  Daily  News. He  wrote  a  number  of  religious  books. He  was  an  opponent  of   Irish  independence  and  promoted  Britain's  case  in  the USA  using  the Civil  War  as  an  example. He  also  wrote  a  weekly  column  in  The  Truth  from  1912  to  1937. He  also  wrote  for  the  New  York  Times.

He  died  in  1956  aged  81.