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Samuel Rathbone Edge

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Samuel Rathbone Edge
Member of Parliament
for Newcastle-under-Lyme
In office
26 August 1878 – 31 March 1880
Preceded byWilliam Shepherd Allen
Edmund Buckley
Succeeded byWilliam Shepherd Allen
Charles Donaldson-Hudson
Personal details
Born22 May 1848
Tunstall, Staffordshire
Died27 September 1936(1936-09-27) (aged 88)
NationalityBritish
Political partyLiberal
Spouse
Eliza Marion Holden
(m. 1888)
Alma materQueen's College, Oxford

Samuel Rathbone Edge (22 May 1848 – 27 September 1936)[1] JP was a Liberal Party politician.[2][3]

Edge was elected MP for the Newcastle-under-Lyme at a by-election in 1878. However, he lost the seat two years later at the 1880 general election.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 1)
  2. ^ "Samuel Rathbone, Edge". People of Stoke-on-Trent. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  3. ^ "Samuel Rathbone Edge". The Peerage. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  4. ^ Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (e-book) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lymee
18781880
With: William Shepherd Allen
Succeeded by