18 Facts About Henry Hogbin

Henry Cairn Hogbin was an English businessman and Liberal later Conservative politician.

Henry Cairn Hogbin was the son of Thomas Parker Hogbin of Tilmanstone, Eastry in Kent.

Henry Hogbin attended Montague House School and received the rest of his education privately.

Henry Hogbin married his first wife, Winfred, in 1905 and they had two sons and four daughters.

In business, Henry Hogbin had interests in the agricultural chemical industry.

Henry Hogbin worked for Lawe's Chemical Company and was later Chairman of the Allied Guano and Chemical Company.

Henry Hogbin organised agricultural production and was Chairman of the Home Counties Claims Commission.

At the 1923 Henry Hogbin secured the nomination of the now re-united Liberal Party but his candidacy was endorsed by the local Conservatives in order to oppose Saklatvala, who they regarded as a revolutionary and unconstitutional candidate.

At one point in the campaign Henry Hogbin discontinued holding indoor election meetings claiming this was as a result of Labour intimidation and disruption.

In 1926, Henry Hogbin took the decision to leave the Liberal Party.

Henry Hogbin wrote to party leader Lord Oxford explaining that he did not believe the Liberal Party any longer represented an effective instrument for fighting what he called 'the pernicious doctrine' of socialism.

Henry Hogbin's experience of co-operation with the Conservative Party was a clear factor in his decision to leave the Liberal Party and follow other politicians, most famously Winston Churchill, who had stood under the Constitutionalist banner in 1924, into the Tory Party itself.

In 1927, Henry Hogbin was chosen as Conservative candidate in the 1927 Stourbridge by-election in Worcestershire.

The sitting Tory MP, Douglas Pielou, had died and Henry Hogbin faced a three-cornered contest with Labour and Liberal opponents.

Henry Hogbin failed to hold the seat however which was gained by Labour's Wilfred Wellock.

Henry Hogbin was appointed a Justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex in 1928.

Henry Hogbin was a keen amateur sportsman, playing cricket, tennis and golf and he founded the Magistrates' Golfing Society in 1938.

Henry Hogbin died in a Bournemouth nursing home on 13 June 1966 aged 85 years.