Caine, William Sproston (1842–1903), politician and temperance advocate, born at Egremont, Wallasey, Cheshire, on 26 March 1842, was the eldest surviving son of Nathaniel Caine JP (d. 1877), metal merchant, and his wife, Hannah (d. 1861), daughter of William Rushton of ...
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Caine, William Sproston (1842–1903), politician and temperance advocate
G. S. Woods
revised by H. C. G. Matthew
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Caine, William Sproston (1842–1903)
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William Sproston Caine (1842–1903) by Sir Benjamin Stone, 1901 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Jones [later Leif-Jones], Leifchild Stratten, Baron Rhayader (1862–1939), temperance advocate and politician
David M. Fahey
Jones [later Leif-Jones], Leifchild Stratten, Baron Rhayader (1862–1939), temperance advocate and politician, was born at 44 Albert Street, Regent's Park, London, on 16 January 1862. The fourth son of Thomas Jones (known as Jones Treforris) of Morriston, Glamorgan (1819–1882), a Congregational minister who served as president of the Congregational unions in ...
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Lawson, Sir Wilfrid, second baronet (1829–1906), politician and temperance campaigner
G. W. E. Russell
revised by David M. Fahey
Lawson, Sir Wilfrid, second baronet (1829–1906), politician and temperance campaigner, born on 4 September 1829 at his father's house, Brayton, near Carlisle, was the eldest son in a family of four sons and four daughters of Sir Wilfrid Lawson, first baronet (1795–1867), and his wife, ...
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Lawson, Sir Wilfrid, second baronet (1829–1906)
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Sir Wilfrid Lawson, second baronet (1829–1906) by Lock & Whitfield, pubd 1882 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Mackenzie, William Forbes (1807–1862), politician and temperance reformer
H. C. G. Matthew
Mackenzie, William Forbes (1807–1862), politician and temperance reformer, born on 18 April 1807 at Portmore, Peeblesshire, was the third and eldest surviving son of Colin Mackenzie, writer to the signet in Edinburgh, deputy keeper of the signet, and a friend of Sir Walter Scott...
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McLagan, Peter (1822/3–1900), agriculturalist, temperance campaigner, and politician
Ewen A. Cameron
McLagan, Peter (1822/3–1900), agriculturalist, temperance campaigner, and politician, was born in Demerara, British Guiana, the son of Peter McLagan (1776–1860), estate and slave owner in Demerara, and an unknown woman, possibly an enslaved or free black woman from his Caledonia plantation...
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Scrymgeour, Edwin (1866–1947), prohibitionist and politician
John Kemp
Scrymgeour, Edwin (1866–1947), prohibitionist and politician, was born on 28 July 1866 at 25 Nethergate, Dundee, the fifth of the eight children of James Scrymgeour (1821–1887), temperance and charity worker, and his wife, Jeanette (1837–1925), daughter of David Calman, superintendent of the graving dock in ...
