Edward Hermon (2 April 1822 – 6 May 1881)[1] was a British cotton magnate[2] and Conservative Party politician.

At the 1868 general election he was elected on his first attempt a Member of Parliament (MP) for the two-seat constituency of Preston in Lancashire. He was re-elected in the 1874 and in 1880 general elections,[3] and held the seat until he died in office in 1881, aged 59.[1] The resulting by-election in Preston was held on 23 May 1881, and won by the Conservative candidate William Ecroyd.[3]

Hermon's last recorded contribution to debates in the House of Commons was eight days before his death, aged 59, on 28 April 1881, when he asked Prime Minister Gladstone a sceptical question about the proposed commercial treaty with France.[4]

Family

In 1872–78 Hermon had Wyfold Court built at Rotherfield Peppard near Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire.[2] It is an elaborate Gothic Revival country house designed by the architect Somers Clarke.[2]

Hermon's only daughter was Frances Caroline Hermon (died 1929), who was married in 1877 to Robert Trotter Hodge (1851–1937), who later became MP for Accrington and other constituencies. After being made a baronet in 1902, Hodge changed his surname to Hermon-Hodge in honour of his wife's family, and was later ennobled as Baron Wyfold.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 "Historical list of MPs: Constituencies beginning with "P" (part 2 )". Leigh Rayment's peerage pages. Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 19 November 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. 1 2 3 Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 738. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
  3. 1 2 Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [First published 1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. pp. 248–249. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
  4. ↑ "House of Commons Debates vol 260 columns 1313-4". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). 28 April 1881. Retrieved 19 November 2009.
  5. ↑ Lundy, Darryl. "Frances Caroline Hermon". The Peerage.com. Retrieved 19 November 2009.


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