Edward Hermon (2 April 1822 – 6 May 1881) was a British cotton magnate and Conservative Party politician. At the 1868 general election he was elected on his first attempt a Member of Parliament (MP) for the two-seat constituency of Preston in

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. He was re-elected in the

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and in

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general elections, and held the seat until he died in office in 1881, aged 59. The resulting by-election in Preston was held on 23 May 1881, and won by the Conservative candidate William Ecroyd. Hermon's last recorded contribution to debates in the

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was eight days before his death, aged 59, on 28 April 1881, when he asked Prime Minister

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a sceptical question about the proposed commercial treaty with France.

Family

In 1872–78 Hermon had

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built at Rotherfield Peppard near

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. It is an elaborate

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designed by the architect Somers Clarke. Hermon's only daughter was Frances Caroline Hermon (died 1929), who was married in 1877 to Robert Trotter Hodge (1851–1937), who later became MP for

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and other constituencies. After being made a

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in 1902, Hodge changed his surname to ''Hermon-Hodge'' in honour of his wife's family, and was later ennobled as Baron Wyfold.

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* 1822 births 1881 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Politics of Preston UK MPs 1868–1874 UK MPs 1874–1880 UK MPs 1880–1885 {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1820s-stub