Sir Ernest Frederic George Hatch, 1st Baronet,

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(12 April 1859 – 17 August 1927) was a British politician. He was the son of John William Hatch of London and Matilda Augusta Snell of

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, Cornwall. Following a private education, he went into business as a wine merchant, and in 1894 established Hatch, Mansfield and Company, working with James Mansfield, who became managing director.''New Members of Parliament'', The Times, 23 July 1895, p.4''Sir Ernest Hatch'', The Times, 18 August 1927, p. 12 Hatch was unsuccessful Conservative parliamentary candidate for the Gorton Division of Lancashire at a by-election in 1889 and at the succeeding general election in 1892. On his third attempt, in the 1895 election, he was elected as Gorton's MP. Hatch remained as Conservative member for Gorton until 1904, when his disagreement with Joseph Chamberlain over free trade led to him crossing the floor to the Liberal Party.P F Clarke, ''Lancashire and the New Liberalism'', Cambridge, 2007 At the next general election in 1906 he had little support from Liberal activists for his candidature, and accordingly withdrew. In 1908 he was created a baronet, "of Portland Place, in the Metropolitan Borough of St Marylebone". He was appointed chairman and treasurer of University College Hospital, London During the First World War he chaired the Government Commission on Belgian Refugees, and was made a commander of the Belgian Order of the Crown. He was also Chairman of Council of the Beyond Seas Association for Reception of Officers and Relatives from beyond the seas, and for this he was appointed

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(KBE) in the 1920 New Year Honours. Ernest Hatch married Lady Constance Blanche Godolphin Osborne in 1900, aunt of John Osborne, later Duke of Leeds. They had one daughter, and the baronetcy became extinct on Sir Ernest's death in 1927.

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*Obituary, '' The Times'', 18 August 1927 * 1859 births 1927 deaths People from Callington, Cornwall Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1895–1900 UK MPs 1900–1906 English businesspeople Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Commanders of the Order of the Crown (Belgium) Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1850s-stub