Sir Frederick William Chance (26 December 1852 – 31 August 1932) was a British

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politician from

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. He sat in the

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from 1905 to 1910.

Background

Chance was from a long-established family of businessmen and politicians in Carlisle. He ran the family's cotton-manufacturing firm in the town, Ferguson Brothers, and served as Mayor of Carlisle in 1904, before becoming a member of Cumberland County Council. Both his grandfather Joseph Ferguson and his uncle Robert Ferguson had been

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(MPs) for the borough of Carlisle and he was a brother-in-law of Sir Henry Seton-Karr, the MP for St Helens. Carlisle's MP since 1886 was

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, who served as

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from 1895 to 1905. Ill-health forced Gully to resign as Speaker in May 1905, and at the by-election in July 1905 Chance was elected as the

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(MP) for

. He was re-elected unopposed in

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, and held the seat until the

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, when he did not stand again. He was

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in 1915.

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* 1852 births 1932 deaths Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1900–1906 UK MPs 1906–1910 Mayors of Carlisle, Cumbria Members of Cumberland County Council English businesspeople British textile industry businesspeople High Sheriffs of Cumberland {{England-mayor-stub