Edward Johnson-Ferguson

Sir Jabez Edward Johnson-Ferguson, 1st Baronet (27 November 1849 – 10 December 1929) was an English businessman and Liberal politician.

Johnson-Ferguson was born Jabez Edward Johnson at Salford, Lancashire. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge.[1] He was a merchant of Lancashire[2] living at Kenyon Hall, Culcheth near Warrington (Currently owned and used as Leigh Golf Club) and chairman of his company, which had several names including Messrs Jabez Johnson & Co and Jabez Johnson, Hodgkinson and Pearson, Ltd. He was also a director of Williams, Deacon & Manchester and Salford Bank Ltd. In 1881 he assumed by Royal licence the additional surname of Ferguson in 1881.

Johnson-Ferguson was elected as Member of Parliament for Loughborough in 1885. He was a radical Liberal. He lost the seat in 1886, but regained it in 1892, holding it until 1906.[3] In 1891 he became a director of Bolckow Vaughan Co. Ltd, a mining company, and became its chairman and managing director in 1906 until his death.[4] He became a baronet on 18 July 1906.[5]

References
  1. "Johnson-Ferguson, Jabez Edward (JHN868JE)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. James R. Moore The transformation of urban liberalism
  3. Hansard list of MPs
  4. Marianne Pitts How are the mighty fallen: Bolckow Vaughan Co. Ltd. 1864–1929
  5. "No. 27932". The London Gazette. 17 July 1906. p. 4885.


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