Edward Fielden (politician)

Edward Brocklehurst Fielden (10 June 1857 – 31 March 1942)[1] was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician.

[6] He was also chairman of the local board of directors of the Alliance Insurance Company at Shrewsbury.

He was re-elected in 1929 and 1931, and held the seat until he stood down from the House of Commons at the 1935 general election when he was then, at 78, the oldest MP.

[7] For much of his life he kept a family base, within his earlier constituency's area, at Dobroyd Castle in Todmorden, but was also variously a landowner in Oxfordshire and Shropshire.

He died at Court of Hill, aged 84, in 1942, and was buried at the parish church of St John the Baptist at Nash.