About Walter Clough
Lived 1846 – 1922 (aged 75). Walter Clough was a British politician.
Walter Owen Clough (15 September 1846 – 17 April 1922) was a British Liberal Party politician.
Clough was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire on 15 September 1846.
He was elected at the 1892 general election as a Member of Parliament for Portsmouth. Portsmouth's two MPs (one Liberal Unionist and one Conservative) had not stood for re-election, and Clough was one of the two Liberals elected to replace them.
He was re-elected in 1895, but did not serve a full term, and decided to resign his seat This was formalised on 23 April 1900 by the technical device of accepting appointment as Steward of the Manor of Northstead, a notional "office of profit under The Crown". The by-election for his seat was held on 3 May 1900, and won by the Liberal candidate Thomas Bramsdon.
Clough died in the Kingston Registration district on 17 April 1922 aged 75.
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British politician (1846-1922)
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Walter Clough was born on 15 September 1846.
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Walter Clough was a politician.
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