Sydney Gedge

Gedge in 1895.

Sydney Gedge (16 October 1829 – 6 April 1923) was a British Conservative politician and prominent lay member of the Church of England.

Born in North Runcton, Norfolk, he was the eldest son of the Rev. Sydney Gedge, and was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.[1] He graduated in 1854, and received a first class Moral Sciences Tripos.[2][3] He married Augusta Herring in 1857.[4] He was a Cambridge Apostle.

He became a solicitor, and senior partner in Gedge, Fisher & Gedge. The company became solicitors to the London School Board in 1870, and Gedge was solicitor to the board for twenty years.[1][3]

Gedge first stood for election to parliament in 1880, but failed to be elected at Cambridge. Five years later he was the Conservative candidate for Luton, but again was unsuccessful.[5] In 1886 he was elected as one of two Conservative Members of Parliament (MPs) for Stockport, but was defeated at the subsequent 1892 general election. He returned to the House of Commons in 1895 as member for Walsall, defeating the sitting Liberal Arthur Hayter.[6] In 1900 Hayter regained the Walsall seat, ending Gedge's parliamentary career. In November 1900 he was elected a member of the London School Board.[7] He was defeated when he was a candidate for the London County Council in 1901.[8]

Gedge was deeply involved in the Church of England, being a diocesan lay reader and a member of the House of Laymen of the General Synod. He was a governor of Ridley Hall and Wycliffe Hall and of Westfield College for Women, and an enthusiastic member of the Church Missionary Society.[3]

He died at his home in Mitcham, Surrey in 1923, aged 93.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "New Members Of Parliament". The Times. 19 July 1895. p. 15.
  2. ↑ "Sydney, Gedge (GG849S)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Mr Sydney Gedge. A Noted Evangelical Churchman.". The Times. 7 April 1923. p. 12.
  4. ↑ "Marriages". The Times. 27 April 1857. p. 1.
  5. ↑ "Election Intelligence". The Times. 7 February 1885. p. 5.
  6. ↑ "England". The Times. 29 June 1895. p. 12.
  7. ↑ "The London School Board Election". The Times. 1 December 1900. p. 9.
  8. ↑ "The London County Council Election". The Times. 31 January 1901. p. 7.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Louis John Jennings
William Tipping		 Member of Parliament for Stockport
1886–1892
With: Louis John Jennings		 Succeeded by
Louis John Jennings
Sir Joseph Leigh
Preceded by
Sir Arthur Divett Hayter		 Member of Parliament for Walsall
1895–1900 		Succeeded by
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