Saturday, 20 October 2018
2064 Edward Lessing
Constituency : Abingdon 1923-4
Edward took Abingdon from the Tories at the second attempt in a straight fight.
Edward was the nephew of the last Liberal MP for Abingdon, Edward Strauss. He was educated at Marlborough and Oxford. He became a barrister but spent most of his career in business as a grain merchant. He served in World War One as a captain in the Grenadier Guards then was part of the military mission to Russia. He was captured by the Bolsheviks in the attack on the British embassy in 1918. He received an OBE in 1918. He came close to taking the seat in 1922.
Edward led the Liberal opposition to the proposed loan to Soviet Russia and the Anglo-Soviet treaty.
In 1924, Edward was defeated by more than the Labour vote but Labour's presence probably stopped him recapturing the seat in 1929.
Edward served as a lieutenant in the Royal Army Pay Corps from 1939 to 1942. From 1945 to 1947 he worked as an interpreter in the Civil Service. He held a number of important positions in trade organisations.
He died in 1964 aged 74.
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