Augustus Frederick Warr

Augustus Frederick Warr (September 1847 – 24 March 1908) was an English solicitor from Liverpool and a Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1895 to 1902.

Early life

Warr was the third son of Rev George Winter Warr,[1][2] a Church of England vicar of St Saviour's Church in Liverpool and the Canon of Liverpool from 1880 until his death in 1895.[1][3] He was educated at the Royal Institution School in Liverpool, and qualified as a solicitor in 1870.[2]

He married the sister of the lawyer Gorell Barnes.[2]

Career

Warr specialised in commercial law, on which he became an established authority.[2] He became a partner in the firm of Batestons, Warr & Wimshurt, and served as President of the Liverpool Law Society in 1892.[4]

He was elected as a Liverpool City Councillor in November 1894.[4] The Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Baron Henry de Worms was ennobled in November 1895,[5] giving him a seat and the House of Lords and creating a vacancy in his Commons seat, the East Toxteth division of Liverpool.[6] Warr was selected as the Conservative candidate for the resulting by-election, and was returned unopposed.[4][7]

He was re-elected unopposed at the general election in 1900,[8] but found that the increasing workload of Parliament was incompatible with his legal work in Liverpool and his wife's long-term illness.[9] He resigned his seat on 27 October 1902 by the procedural device of accepting appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds,[10][11][11] triggering another by-election.

Warr died suddenly at the age of 60 on 24 March 1908, after returning home from business.[2]

gollark: The on-chip hardware RNGs are not PRNGs but extract entropy from electrical noise.
gollark: I do not think you understand what I am referring to.
gollark: Yes it is.
gollark: We have hardware RNG in all modern computers.
gollark: <@!221881745182687232> Not at all.

References
  1. Debrett's House of Commons, and the Judicial Bench. London: Dean & Son. 1901. p. 155. Retrieved 7 September 2012.
  2. "Obituary. Augustus Frederick Warr". The Times. 26 March 1908. p. 8. Retrieved 8 September 2012.(subscription required)
  3. "Obituary: Canon George Winter Warr". The Times. 31 December 1895. p. 4, col B. Retrieved 8 September 2012.(subscription required)
  4. "Election Intelligence: Liverpool (East Toxteth division)". The Times. 30 November 1895. p. 11, column E. Retrieved 8 September 2012.(subscription required)
  5. "No. 26680". The London Gazette. 15 November 1895. p. 6182.
  6. "Court Circular". The Times. 15 October 1895. p. 3. Retrieved 8 September 2012.(subscription required)
  7. "No. 26685". The London Gazette. 3 December 1895. p. 6991.
  8. Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1989]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 139. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.
  9. "Election Intelligence. Liverpool (East Toxteth Division)". The Times. 27 October 1902. p. 10, col B. Retrieved 8 September 2012.(subscription required)
  10. "Election Intelligence. Liverpool (East Toxteth Division)". The Times. 29 October 1902. p. 8. Retrieved 8 September 2012.(subscription required)
  11. "No. 27488". The London Gazette. 28 October 1902. p. 6803.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Baron Henry de Worms		 Member of Parliament for Liverpool East Toxteth
1895 – 1902		 Succeeded by
Austin Taylor
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.