Frederick Chance

Sir Frederick William Chance (26 December 1852 – 31 August 1932)[1] was a British Liberal Party[2] politician from Carlisle. He sat in the House of Commons from 1905 to 1910.

Background

Chance was from a long-established family of businessmen and politicians in Carlisle. He ran the family's cotton-manufacturing firm in the town, Ferguson Brothers,[3] and served as Mayor of Carlisle in 1904, before becoming a member of Cumberland County Council.[3] Both his grandfather Joseph Ferguson and his uncle[3] Robert Ferguson had been Members of Parliament (MPs) for the borough of Carlisle and he was a brother-in-law of Sir Henry Seton-Karr,[3] the MP for St Helens.

Carlisle's MP since 1886 was William Court Gully, who served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1895 to 1905. Ill-health forced Gully to resign as Speaker in May 1905,[4] and at the by-election in July 1905 Chance was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Carlisle.[5] He was re-elected unopposed in 1906,[6] and held the seat until the January 1910 general election,[1] when he did not stand again.[2]

He was High Sheriff of Cumberland in 1915.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 1)
  2. 1 2 Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 93. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Election Intelligence. Carlisle". The Times. London. 15 July 1905. p. 7, col E.
  4. ↑ "Political Notes. Resignation Of The Speaker". The Times. London. 31 May 1905. p. 9, col F.
  5. ↑ "No. 27818". The London Gazette. 18 July 1905. p. 4982.
  6. ↑ "No. 27885". The London Gazette. 13 February 1906. p. 1039.
  7. ↑ "No. 29086". The London Gazette. 2 March 1915. p. 2088.


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