Edward Goulding, 1st Baron Wargrave

Edward Alfred Goulding, 1st Baron Wargrave PC JP DL (5 November 1862 – 17 July 1936),[1][2] known as Sir Edward Goulding, Bt, between 1915 and 1922, was a British barrister, businessman and Conservative Party politician.

[4] He was re-elected in 1900,[5] and held the seat until the 1906 general election,[6] when he stood unsuccessfully in Finsbury Central.

[7] He returned to Parliament two years later, when he was elected as MP for the borough of Worcester at by-election in February 1908,[8] a seat which had been left vacant for two years after a Royal Commission concluded in 1906 that there had been extensive corruption in the borough at the 1906 general election.

[7] He was re-elected in Worcester at both the January[9] and December 1910 elections,[10] and was returned as a Coalition Unionist in 1918.

[11] He was created a Baronet, of Wargrave Hall in the County of Berks, in 1915[12] and sworn of the Privy Council in 1918.