Edward Goulding, 1st Baron Wargrave

Edward Alfred Goulding, 1st Baron Wargrave (5 November 1862 – 17 July 1936)[1][2] was a British Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons between 1895 and 1922, before being ennobled and taking his seat in the House of Lords

He was elected at the 1895 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Devizes division of Wiltshire.[3] He was re-elected in 1900,[4] and held the seat until the 1906 general election,[5] when he stood unsuccessfully in Finsbury Central.[6]

He returned to Parliament two years later, when he was elected as MP for the borough of Worcester at by-election in February 1908,[7] a seat which had been left vacant for two years after a Royal Commission concluded in 1906 that there had been extensive corruption in the borough at the 1906 general election.[6] He was re-elected in Worcester at both the January[8] and December 1910 elections,[9] and was returned as a Coalition Unionist in 1918.[10] He stood down from the Commons at the 1922 general election,[10][2] and was ennobled as Baron Wargrave.

References

  1. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 5)
  2. ^ a b Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "D" (part 2)
  3. ^ London Gazette: no. 26651. p. 4486. 9 August 1895. Retrieved 28 January 2011.
  4. ^ London Gazette: no. 27244. p. 6775. 6 November 1900. Retrieved 28 January 2011.
  5. ^ Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 416. ISBN 0-900178-27-2. 
  6. ^ a b Craig, British parliamentary election results 1885–1918, page 13
  7. ^ London Gazette: no. 28108. p. 969. 11 February 1908. Retrieved 28 January 2011.
  8. ^ London Gazette: no. 28338. p. 1037. 11 February 1910. Retrieved 28 January 2011.
  9. ^ London Gazette: no. 28449. p. 9557. 23 December 1910. Retrieved 28 January 2011.
  10. ^ a b Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 284. ISBN 0-900178-06-X. 

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Charles Hobhouse		 Member of Parliament for Devizes
1895 – 1906		 Succeeded by
Francis Rogers
Preceded by
George Henry Williamson		 Member of Parliament for Worcester
1908 – 1922		 Succeeded by
Richard Robert Fairbairn
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baronet
(of Wargrave Hall)
1915 – 1936		 Extinct
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baron Wargrave
1922 – 1936		 Extinct