Charles Wigram Long

Charles Wigram Long (1842 – 13 December 1911)^[1] was a British Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons for 1895 to 1910.

Long was the son of Charles Long, who was Archdeacon of the East Riding of Yorkshire, and his wife Anna Maria, the daughter of Sir Robert Wigram, 1st Baronet.^[2] He entered the Royal Artillery in 1860, becoming a Captain (land) in 1874, a Brevet Major in 1881, and a Lieutenant-Colonel (retired) in 1886.^[2] He later became a Justice of the Peace and a Deputy Lieutenant of Worcestershire.^[2]

He was elected at the 1895 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Evesham division of Worcestershire,^[3] and held the seat until he stood down at the January 1910 general election.^[3][1]

Family

In 1889 Long married Constance Vansittart, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Vansittart of the Coldstream Guards.^[2]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "E" (part 2)
2. ^ ^{a b c d} Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1901. London: Dean & Son. 1901. p. 90. http://www.archive.org/stream/debrettshouseo1901londuoft#page/n135/mode/1up. 
3. ^ ^{a b} Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 422. ISBN 0-900178-27-2. 

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Charles Long

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Sir Edmund Lechmere, Bt	Member of Parliament for Evesham 1895 – January 1910	Succeeded by Bolton Eyres-Monsell

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Name	Long, Charles W
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Date of birth	1842
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Date of death	13 December 1911
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