Lewis Haslam

Lewis Haslam (25 April 1856 – 12 September 1922), was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament (MP) in Wales, representing Monmouth Boroughs from 1906 to 1918 and then Newport from 1918 until his death in 1922.

Family and education Haslam was the son of John Haslam of Gilnow House in Bolton in Lancashire. He was educated at University College School and University College, London. In 1893, he married Helen Norma Dixon of Watlington, Oxfordshire.

Career Haslam was the director of cotton spinning and manufacturing companies. He has been classified as a genuinely second generation self-made man and was among the most wealthy MPs of his time. He also served as a Justice of the Peace for the county of Lancaster. Electorate 11,207

Election box begin | title=General election December 1910 Monmouth Boroughs Haslam in particular was strongly opposed to giving the Irish Parliament control of its own taxes.