Constituency : Brighton 1906-10
Aurelian took the second Brighton seat from the Tories, coming in second behind the by-election victor Ernest Villiers.
Aurelian was the brother-in-law of future Tory P.M. Stanley Baldwin. Aurelian was educated at University College School and the Royal School of Mines. He became a stockbroker.
Aurelian's maiden speech expressed the view that the government was moving too fast on the Chinese labour issue and it should be left to the Transvaal government.
Aurelian was scared off by the radicalism of the Liberal government. His last speech was a long criticism of the Peoples' Budget which he described as socialistic and derived from Baron Munchausen : " This idea of taxing people in order to build up a fund for their prosperity seems to me to be so absurd and dangerous that I feel it my duty to enter a most earnest protest against it ". He declined to stand in January 1910 when both seats fell easily to the Tories.
Aurelian chaired the executive committee of the British Red Cross from 1912 to 1914 and deputy chairman from 1914 to 1919. He was knighted in 1920 for this work.
Aurelian was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He was a free thinker and the author of Cosmic Evolution. He had a somewhat austere manner.
He died in 1923 aged 59.
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