Lewis McIver, 1st Baronet

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Sir Lewis McIver, 1st Baronet, 1896

Sir Lewis McIver, 1st Baronet ( 1846 - August 9, 1920 ) was a Scottish politician.

Life

McIver attended the Kensington Grammar School and the University of Bonn . He served in colonial service in India and was head of the Presidency Bank in Madras . In 1878 he was inducted into the Middle Temple and was admitted to the bar. On September 12, 1884, McIver married Charlotte Rosalind Montefiore . He died in 1920.

Political career

In the general election in 1885 , McIver first ran for elections at the national level. He applied for the seat of the constituency of Torquay for the Liberal Party . He prevailed against the conservative Richard Mallock and moved into the British House of Commons for the first time . In the run-up to the following elections in 1886 , McIver joined the Liberal Unionists . However, on election day he suffered a defeat and initially lost his seat in parliament.

Since William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne , who had held the mandate of the constituency of Edinburgh West since 1892 , did not run for the general election in 1895 , his party colleague McIver applied for the mandate. He won it unopposed. On July 23, 1896, he was given the hereditary title of baronet , of Sarisbury in the County of Southampton . In the general election in 1900 and 1906 , he held his mandate against various liberal opponents. In 1909 he accepted the Stewardship of the Manor of Northstead and left the House of Commons. His party colleague James Avon Clyde won the due by-elections without a candidate.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lewis McIver in Hansard (English)
  2. ^ Debrett's Guide to the House of Commons 1886, p. 100.
  3. ↑ Lewis McIver, 1st Baronet on thepeerage.com , accessed April 11, 2015.
  4. ^ The Constitutional Yearbook 1912, p. 170.
  5. ↑ a b Debrett’s Guide to the House of Commons 1902, p. 194. ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.forgottenbooks.com
  6. ↑ Baronetage: McIVER of Sarisbury, Hants at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
  7. ↑ a b The Constitutional Yearbook 1912, p. 236
  8. ↑ Information from the British Parliament

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SURNAME McIver, Lewis, 1st Baronet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1846
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1920