Edward Hermon (2 April 1822 – 6 May 1881) was a British cotton magnate and

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politician. At the 1868 general election he was elected on his first attempt a

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(MP) for the two-seat constituency of Preston in

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. He was re-elected in the

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and in

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general elections, and held the seat until he died in office in 1881, aged 59. The resulting by-election in Preston was held on 23 May 1881, and won by the Conservative candidate William Ecroyd. Hermon's last recorded contribution to debates in the

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was eight days before his death, aged 59, on 28 April 1881, when he asked Prime Minister

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a sceptical question about the proposed

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with France.

Family

In 1872–78 Hermon had

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built at

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near

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. It is an elaborate

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. Hermon's only daughter was Frances Caroline Hermon (died 1929), who was married in 1877 to

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(1851–1937), who later became MP for

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and other constituencies. After being made a

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in 1902, Hodge changed his surname to ''Hermon-Hodge'' in honour of his wife's family, and was later ennobled as

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