Walter Owen Clough was a British Liberal Party

Liberal Party (UK)

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 politician.

Clough was born in Huddersfield

Huddersfield

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 Yorkshire

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  on 15 September 1846.

He was elected at the 1892 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1892

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 as a Member of Parliament

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 for Portsmouth

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. Portsmouth's two MPs (one Liberal Unionist

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 and one Conservative

Conservative Party (UK)

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) had not stood for re-election, and Clough was one of the two Liberals elected to replace them.

He was re-elected in 1895

United Kingdom general election, 1895

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, but did not serve a full term, and resigned his seat

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 on 23 April 1900 by the technical device of accepting appointment as Steward of the Manor of Northstead, a notional "office of profit under The Crown". The by-election for his seat

Portsmouth by-election, 1900

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 was held on 3 May 1900, and won by the Liberal candidate Thomas Bramsdon

Thomas Bramsdon

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.

In the 1901 Census of London

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 Clough is listed as a 54-year old Chartered Accountant & Auditor Magistrate and D L of the City of London living at Manor House, Upper Richmond Road, Barnes, Surrey with his wife Hannah and two sons.

Clough died in the Kingston

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 Registration district

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  on the 17 April 1922.

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