Sir Jabez Edward Johnson-Ferguson, 1st Baronet (27 November 1849 – 10 December 1929) was an English businessman and

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politician. Johnson-Ferguson was born Jabez Edward Johnson at

Salford Salford () is a city and the largest settlement in the City of Salford metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. In 2011, Salford had a population of 103,886. It is also the second and only other city in the metropolitan county afte ...

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. He was educated at

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. He was a merchant of Lancashire living at Kenyon Hall, Culcheth near Warrington (Currently owned and used as Leigh Golf Club) and chairman of his company, which had several names including Messrs Jabez Johnson & Co and Jabez Johnson, Hodgkinson and Pearson, Ltd. He was also a director of Williams, Deacon & Manchester and Salford Bank Ltd. In 1881 he assumed by Royal licence the additional surname of Ferguson in 1881. Johnson-Ferguson was elected as

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for

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in 1885. He was a radical Liberal. He lost the seat in 1886, but regained it in 1892, holding it until 1906. In 1891 he became a director of

Bolckow Vaughan Bolckow, Vaughan & Co., Ltd was an English steelmaking, ironmaking and mining company founded in 1864, based on the partnership since 1840 of its two founders, Henry Bolckow and John Vaughan (ironmaster), John Vaughan. The firm drove the dramat ...

Co. Ltd, a mining company, and became its chairman and managing director in 1906 until his death. He became a

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on 18 July 1906.

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* 1849 births 1929 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Loughborough UK MPs 1885–1886 UK MPs 1892–1895 UK MPs 1895–1900 Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge People from Salford {{England-Liberal-UK-MP-stub