Edward Aldam Leatham was an English Liberal

Liberal Party (UK)

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 politician.

Leatham was the son of William Leatham

William Leatham (banker)

William Leatham was a leading Banker in Wakefield, a Quaker and an abolitionist.-Biography:Leatham was born in Pontefract to a father who would set up the family bank around 1800. Leatham attended Mr Tatum's academy in Leeds, but he was apprenticed to his father's bank by the age of about 15...

 of Heath near Wakefield

Wakefield

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, and his wife Margaret Walker. The family was part of an influential Quaker community in Yorkshire. He was a scholar and published Charmione: a tale of the great Athenian Revolution in 1858. His sister married John Bright

John Bright

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  and he was heavily influenced by Bright's policies.

Leatham was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Huddersfield

Huddersfield (UK Parliament constituency)

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 in 1859 but gave up the seat in 1865. In 1861 he instituted the Huddersfield College Prize Medals for history and English declamation which were awarded for the two subects in alternate years. He was re-elected for Huddersfield in 1868 and held the seat until 1886. In 1875 he acquired an estate at Miserden

Miserden

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, Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire

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. He became High Sheriff of Gloucestershire

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 in 1891.

Leatham married Mary Jane Fowler of Melksham in 1851. His brother William Henry Leatham

William Henry Leatham

William Henry Leatham was a British banker, poet and Liberal politician.He was a member of a Yorkshire Quaker family. His father was William Leatham, a banker from Heath, near Wakefield and his mother was Margaret née Walker of Leeds.Leatham entered banking, working in Wakefield, Pontefract and...

 was MP for Wakefield and Southern West Riding

Southern West Riding of Yorkshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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