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Sir John Leng was a
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politician in
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Leng was born in
HullKingston upon Hull , usually referred to as Hull, is a city and unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It stands on the River Hull at its junction with the Humber estuary, 25 miles inland from the North Sea. Hull has a resident population of...
, the brother of
W. C. LengWilliam Christopher Leng, known as W. C. Leng was a newspaper publisher in Sheffield.Leng was born and educated in Hull, before being apprenticed as a pharmacist and setting up his own business. During this period, he contributed anonymously to the Hull Free Press, calling for reforms such as...
. In the 1850s, he purchased the
Dundee Advertiser.
He was elected to the House of Commons as
Member of ParliamentA Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...
for
DundeeDundee was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 to 1950, when it was split into Dundee East and Dundee West....
at a
by-electionA by-election is an election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between regularly scheduled elections....
in 1889 following the death of the sitting MP,
Joseph FirthJoseph Firth Bottomley Firth was an English barrister and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1880 to 1889.-Early life:...
and held the seat until he stood down at the
1906 general election-Seats summary:-See also:*MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1906*The Parliamentary Franchise in the United Kingdom 1885-1918-External links:***-References:*F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987**...
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