Edmund Lamb

Edmund George Lamb (8 July 1863 – 3 Jan 1925)[1] was an English landowner, colliery proprietor, and Liberal Party politician.[2]

He was elected at the 1906 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Leominster division of Herefordshire,[1] but was defeated at the January 1910 election by the Conservative candidate Sir James Rankin, who he had ousted in 1906.[3] and did not stand for Parliament again until the post-war general election of December 1918, when failed to regain the seat.[4]

Family

Lamb and his wife Mabel née Winkworth (1862–1941), daughter of a Manchester cotton mill owner, had one child, Winifred Lamb (1894–1963). She was a classical archaeologist, and author of several works on ancient Greece.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 2)
  2. ^ a b Gill, David (Sept 2004). "Lamb, Winifred (1894–1963)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edn. Oxford University Press. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/67872. Retrieved 28 June 2010. 
  3. ^ Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 293. ISBN 0-900178-27-2. 
  4. ^ Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 370. ISBN 0-900178-06-X. 

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Sir James Rankin		 Member of Parliament for Leominster
1906 – January 1910		 Succeeded by
Sir James Rankin