Hugh Mowbray Meyler was a Liberal Party

Liberal Party (UK)

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 politician in the United Kingdom

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 who served as Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Blackpool

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 from 1923 to 1924.

At the 1918 general election

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, he stood unsuccessfully in the Bethnal Green South West constituency

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, coming third with 23.4% of the votes.

At the 1922 general election

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, he stood in the more promsing Blackpool constituency, where he lost by only 166 votes to the sitting Conservative

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 MP Leonard Molloy

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. Molloy did not contest the 1923 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1923

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, and Meyler won the seat with a majority of over 3,000 votes.

However, at the 1924 general election

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, Sir Walter de Frece

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 retook the seat for the Conservatives. Meyler did not stand for Parliament

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again.