Major Eric Ayshford Knight was a British Conservative Party politician. He served as a Conservative Party Member of Parliament for

Kidderminster Kidderminster is a market town and civil parish in Worcestershire, England, south-west of Birmingham and north of Worcester, England, Worcester. Located north of the River Stour, Worcestershire, River Stour and east of the River Severn, in th ...

between 1910 and 1922.

Parliamentary career

Knight first contested the Kidderminster seat in the

January 1910 general election The January 1910 UK general election was held from 15 January to 10 February 1910. Called amid a constitutional crisis after the Conservative-dominated House of Lords rejected the People's Budget, the Liberal government, seeking a mandate, los ...

and won the seat. he then kept his seat until the 1922 election. in 1914, Knight campaigned for volunteer soldiers to get paid a soldiers salary.

References

Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1918–1922 {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-stub