About Ernest Flower
Lived 1865 – 1926 (aged 60). Ernest Flower was a British politician.
Sir Ernest Francis Swan Flower (24 August 1865 – 30 April 1926) was a British Conservative Party politician.
At the 1895 general election Flower was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bradford West, winning the seat from the Liberal Party on his second attempt, after unsuccessfully contesting the seat in 1892. He was noted for his philanthropy in the East End of London. He was knighted in the New Year Honours, in December 1903.
Flower was chairman of the Blue Cross Fund. He died in 1926, aged 60. He left all of his property to his sister Edith Mary Flower.
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Ernest Flower was born on 24 August 1865.
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Ernest Flower died on 30 April 1926.
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