Constituency : Eye 1929-51 ( 1931-42 Liberal National, 1942-5 Independent )
Edgar took Eye from the Tories in a three-cornered contest.
Edgar was educated at High Wycombe and in Australia. He served with the Australian Imperial Force at Gallipoli where he was wounded and later in France and Egypt.. He was a manufacturer with interests in armaments and pharmaceuticals.
Edgar was Honorary Secretary to the Liberal Agricultural Group from 1929 to 1931. He became PPS to Samuel in 1931 but joined the Liberal Nationals in time for the election when he was returned unopposed.
Edgar became PPS to Simon as Foreign Secretary until 1936.. He crushed a Labour opponent in 1935.
Edgar served a a captain in the Royal Artillery Corps from 1939 to 1940.
In 1942, Edgar resigned from the Liberal Nationals and sat as an Independent for three years. In 1945 he rejoined the Liberals and held Eye in a three-cornered contest.He relied heavily on personal contact to maintain his position.
Edgar repeated the feat in 1950. He allied with Megan Lloyd-George against Davies and even voted against an amendment he had signed to avoid bringing the Labour government down. He was narrowly defeated in 1951.
The following year, Edgar joined Labour and contested the seat for them in 1955. He took most of the Liberal vote with him but fell short of the Tory by some 800 votes. He stood again in 1959 but fell further behind,
In 1967 Edgar was raised to the peerage as Baron Granville. He became a cross-bencher in the 1970s when he also wrtote two political thrillers..He remained in good health for many years and made regular use of his ex-MP's pass for the Commons tea room often baffling current MPs who couldn't remember him.
Edgar was a keen horseman.
He died in 1998 aged 1900.
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