Thursday, 24 May 2018
1921 Algernon Moreing
Constituency : Buckrose 1918-22, Camborne 1922-23, 1924-9 ( elected as Constitutionalist then took Conservative whip )
Algernon was given the coupon at the last moment when the former MP Austin Taylor had been expecting it in succession to Sir Luke White. Algernon easily defeated him with an Independent Labour candidate coming second.
Algernon was the son of a mining engineer from Australia who had stood for Gainsborough as a Tory in 1906.. He was educated at Winchester and Oxford. He became a partner in his father's firm. He served in France during World War One, reaching the rank of captain.
Algernon was a strong advocate for fusion in 1920.
For the 1922 election, he switched to Camborne. As a National Liberal, he narrowly defeated the Asquithian, Leifchild Jones. In 1923 he received official endorsement as a Liberal following the reunion of the party but Jones wasn't having it and defeated him as an Independent Liberal.
Algernon was not happy with the Liberals letting in the Labour government and wrote to Churchill urging him to lead the anti-socialist Liberals.
In 1924 Algernon stood as a Constitutionalist and unseated Jones in turn. He took the Conservative whip in Parliament . In 1929 , Jones defeated him again.
Algernon's brother Adrian was a Conservative MP in the thirties.
He died in 1974 aged 85.
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