Wednesday, 22 November 2017
1741 Ernest Morrison-Bell
Constituency : Ashburton 1908-10 , 1910-12 ( Liberal Unionist ), 1912-18 ( Conservative )*
* some sources suggest that Ernest might have joined the Conservatives before the January 1910 election.
Ernest took Ashburton from the Liberals when Harry Eve was appointed a judge. The Liberals campaigned on their Small Holdings and Allotments Act of 1907 while Ernest's concentrated on the price of food and claimed his win as a victory for tariff reform. Ernest also received support from Mrs Pankhurst. A riot broke out in the town when the result was announced at Newton Abbot and Ernest was chased back to his hotel.
Ernest was the son of a baronet. He was educated at Eton. He joined the army in 1891 and served in the Boer War where he was promoted from lieutenant to captain. He stood for Ashburton in 1906 but was soundly defeated.
Ernest was narrowly defeated in January 1910 then narrowly triumphed in December. His brother Clive was a Conservative MP for Honiton.
Ashburton was abolished in 1918 and Ernest did not stand elsewhere.
Ernest was six foot two.
He died in 1960 aged 89.
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