Edwin King Perkins

Colonel Sir Edwin King Perkins VD, CBE[1] (28 February 1855 – 8 January 1937)[2] was a British Conservative Party politician.

At the 1918 general election, he unsuccessfully contested the two-seat Southampton constituency, when both seats were won by Coalition Liberals.[3] At the 1922 general election, when the coalition government had been dissolved, Perkins and the other Conservative candidate Lord Apsley won both seats, defeating the Liberal incumbents.[3] They held the seats until the 1929 general election, which neither Perkins nor Apsley contested.[3]

Perkins was knighted in the Dissolution Honours on 12 July 1929,[1] for political and public services.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "No. 33517". The London Gazette. 16 July 1929. pp. 4699–4700.
  2. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 3)
  3. 1 2 3 Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 243. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
  4. ↑ "No. 33512". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 June 1929. pp. 4353–4354.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Sir Ivor Philipps
and William Dudley Ward		 Member of Parliament for Southampton
1922 – 1929
With: Lord Apsley		 Succeeded by
Ralph Morley
and Tommy Lewis


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