Edwin Perkins (politician)

Colonel Sir Edwin King Perkins, CBE, VD[1] (28 February 1855 – 8 January 1937)[2] was a British Conservative Party politician.

He resigned his commission with the Hampshire regiment on 3 December 1902,[3] and received the Volunteer Decoration (VD) for his service.

[4] At the 1918 general election, he unsuccessfully contested the two-seat Southampton constituency, when both seats were won by Coalition Liberals.

[5] At the 1922 general election, when the coalition government had been dissolved, Perkins and the other Conservative candidate Lord Apsley won both seats, defeating the Liberal incumbents.

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