Walter Clough

Who was Walter Clough?

Walter Owen Clough was a British Liberal Party politician.

Clough was born in Huddersfield Yorkshire on 15 September 1846.

He was elected at the 1892 general election as a Member of Parliament for Portsmouth. Portsmouth's two MPs had not stood for re-election, and Clough was one of the two Liberals elected to replace them.

He was re-elected in 1895, but did not serve a full term, and resigned his seat 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 was held on 3 May 1900, and won by the Liberal candidate Thomas Bramsdon.

In the 1901 Census of London 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 Registration district on 17 April 1922.