Augustus Frederick Warr
Augustus Frederick Warr (September 1847 – 24 March 1908) was an English solicitor from Liverpool and a Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1895 to 1902.
Early life
[edit | edit source]Warr was the third son of Rev George Winter Warr,[1][2] a Church of England vicar of St Saviour's Church in Liverpool and the Canon of Liverpool from 1880 until his death in 1895.[1][3] He was educated at the Royal Institution School in Liverpool, and qualified as a solicitor in 1870.[2]
He married the sister of the lawyer Gorell Barnes.[2]
Career
[edit | edit source]Warr specialised in commercial law, on which he became an established authority.[2] He became a partner in the firm of Batestons, Warr & Wimshurt, and served as President of the Liverpool Law Society in 1892.[4]
He was elected as a Liverpool City Councillor in November 1894.[4] The Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Baron Henry de Worms was ennobled in November 1895,[5] giving him a seat and the House of Lords and creating a vacancy in his Commons seat, the East Toxteth division of Liverpool.[6] Warr was selected as the Conservative candidate for the resulting by-election, and was returned unopposed.[4][7]
He was re-elected unopposed at the general election in 1900,[8] but found that the increasing workload of Parliament was incompatible with his legal work in Liverpool and his wife's long-term illness.[9] He resigned his seat on 27 October 1902 by the procedural device of accepting appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds,[10][11] triggering another by-election.
Warr died suddenly at the age of 60 on 24 March 1908, after returning home from business.[2]
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Augustus Frederick Warr
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