Hugh Morrison (8 June 1868 – 15 March 1931) was a British Conservative Party politician. The son of Alfred Morrison and Mabel ''née'' Chermside of Fonthill in Wiltshire, and grandson of millionaire businessman James Morrison, he was educated at Eton and

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. In 1892 he married Lady Mary Leveson-Gower, daughter of Liberal statesman

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. The couple had two children, including John Morrison, who was elevated to the peerage as

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in 1965. Hugh and his brother, Major James Morrison, became two of the wealthiest men in the United Kingdom, having inherited their grandfather's fortune. As well as Fonthill, he owned much of the

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. In 1904 he served as

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, and was also appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Argyllshire. He was elected as Member of Parliament for Wilton at a

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in November 1918, holding the seat for a few weeks until it was abolished for the 1918 general election. He was then elected as MP for

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, holding that seat until his narrow defeat at the 1923 general election by the

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candidate

Hugh Moulton Hugh Lawrence Fletcher Moulton MC (1 April 1876 – 4 January 1962) was a British Liberal politician. The son of John Fletcher Moulton, Baron Moulton, he was a barrister by profession. At the 1923 general election, he was elected as Member ...

. He regained the seat from Moulton in

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, and was re-elected in

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. In his final years in parliament he was in ill health, and he

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from the

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in 1931. He died soon afterwards at his London town house, aged 62.

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