Wednesday, 25 July 2018
1977 Edward Harney
Constituency : South Shields 1922-29
Edward unseated the National Liberal, Havelock Wilson, at South Shields, pushing him into third place and just edging it over Labour by 25 votes.
Edward was the son of a Catholic landowner from Waterford. He was educated at St Vincent's College and became a barrister. He went to Australia in 1892 and practised there. He was a Senator for Western Australia from 1901 to 1904 sitting for the Free Trade Party. He returned to England in 1906.
Edward's maiden speech in 1922 condemned the reparations policy.
With Wilson out of the way, Edward's victories in 1923 and 1924 were very comfortable; he did particularly well to lose just 1.4 % in 1924 given the catastrophic national result.
He died in 1929 just before the election. He was 63. His son was later a Conservative councillor.
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