A Parliamentary Veteran.
Mr Spencer Charrington, who so pluckily sat out the twenty-six hours’ sederunt of the House of Commons recently, is 86, and has represented Mile End division of Tower Hamlets in the conservative interest for nineteen years. He is a member of the famous brewing firm, and despite his great age is still hale and hearty and almost as keen a politician as, for instance, Mr Winston Churchill. Mr Charrington, who in point of mere years is the oldest member in the House of Commons, has been talking—or his friends have of retiring from Parliamentary life at the next general election, and, oddly enough, his near kinsman, Mr F. N. Charrington, has been spoken of as the Liberal candidate for his division. The House will miss him when he does retire, for he is one of its most faithful attendants, and in the reading-room of the House there is a particular armchair which is his by prescriptive right and which no one else ever dreams of appropriating.
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Manawatu Herald, 24 September 1904, Page 2
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169A Parliamentary Veteran. Manawatu Herald, 24 September 1904, Page 2
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