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Edward William Watkin

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Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Born: 26 September 1819

Died: 14 April 1901

1st Baronet - 12 May 1880

Knighted -

father-in-law of Henry Wilson Worsley-Taylor

Elections fought

28 March 1857		Great Yarmouth	Radical	590	54.33
29 July 1857 Petition - election declared void.
30 April 1859		Great Yarmouth	Liberal Party	568	46.14
9 May 1864		Stockport	Liberal Party	Unopposed
12 July 1865		Stockport	Liberal Party	736	56.57
17 November 1868		Stockport	Liberal Party	2,698	51.66
6 October 1869		Eastern Cheshire	Liberal Party	1,815	38.43
11 December 1873		Exeter	Liberal Party	2,025	46.33
5 February 1874		Hythe	Liberal Party	1,347	81.79
April 1880		Hythe	Liberal Party	Unopposed
24 November 1885		Hythe	Independent Liberal	2,248	73.83
1 July 1886		Hythe	Liberal Unionist Party	Unopposed
1888 The Earl of Radnor alleged that Sir E Watkin, Bt, an MP who was very much independent and eccentric, had left the Liberal Unionist party in 1888.
3 July 1892		Hythe	Independent Liberal	Unopposed