Friday, 1 December 2017
1750 Sir John Barran
Constituency : Hawick Burghs 1909-18
Sir John took over from Thomas Shaw when the latter became a judge.
John was the grandson of the former Leeds MP and cloth manufacturer John Barran and succeeded to his baronetcy in 1905. He was educated at Winchester and Cambridge.
John was unopposed in December 1910. He was PPS to Asquith from 1909 to 1916.
John's constituency was abolished in 1918. He contested Hull North West in 1922, 1923 and 1924 coming very close in 1923.
He died in 1952 aged 79.
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