Wednesday, 12 September 2018
2026 Hugh Meyler
Constituency : Blackpool 1923-4
Hugh took Blackpool from the Tories in a straight fight, having run them very close in 1922. He is the only Liberal MP in the constituency's history.
Hugh was born in Taunton where his father was the town clerk.He was educated at King's College, Taunton and the University of London. He became a solicitor. He enlisted to fight in the Boer War as an infantry officer. He stayed in South Africa when the war ended and provided intelligence reports during the Natal Rebellion of 1906. He was elected a Unionist member of South Africa's first parliament in 1910. He served in France from 1914 and suffered being gassed. He won the Military Cross. He switched to the Royal Flying Corps in 1916 where he flew and observed balloons. He rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. In 1918 he stood in Bethnal Green South West coming third. He remained in the army, serving as a legal officer in Ireland.
Hugh was soundly defeated in 1924. He continued to speak in public on South Africa and worked as a "poor man's lawyer" in London.
Unable to make ends meet, he shot himself when bailiffs called at his home, in 1929. He was 53.
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