Sir Charles Philip Huntington, 1st Baronet (c.1833 – 23 December 1906) was a British industrialist and

Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ...

. Charles moved with his two brothers to work in the wallpaper industry in

Darwen Darwen is a market town and civil parish in the Blackburn with Darwen borough in Lancashire, England. The residents of the town are known as "Darreners". The A666 road passes through Darwen towards Blackburn to the north, Bolton to the sout ...

, Lancashire and eventually became a Director of Wallpaper Manufacturers Ltd., who sold the Walpamur range of products. He was appointed a

Justice of the Peace A justice of the peace (JP) is a judicial officer of a lower or ''puisne'' court, elected or appointed by means of a commission ( letters patent) to keep the peace. In past centuries the term commissioner of the peace was often used with the sa ...

in 1878 and elected the Liberal MP for

in 1892, sitting until 1895. He was chosen Mayor of Darwen for 1897–98. He was made 1st Baronet Huntington of the Clock House, Chelsea on 28 June 1906 but died there soon afterwards in January 1907. He had married June Hudson Sparkes of Merton, Surrey, with whom he had several children, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by two of his sons in turn, Henry Leslie (1885-1907) and Charles Philip (1888-1928), after which the baronetcy became extinct. His daughter Marguerite married

Cecil Norton, 1st Baron Rathcreedan Cecil William Norton, 1st Baron Rathcreedan (23 June 1850 – 7 December 1930) was a British Liberal Party politician. Norton was the son of William Norton, Rector of Baltinglass, Ireland. He was elected to the House of Commons for Newington ...

, MP.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Huntington, Sir Charles Huntington, 1st Baronet 1906 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1892–1895 Mayors of places in Lancashire Year of birth uncertain English justices of the peace