Hugh Meyler

Hugh Mowbray Meyler CBE DSO MC (25 June 1875 – 30 April 1929) was a British lawyer, army officer, balloon observer, and politician.

After qualifying as a solicitor, and then serving in the British Army in the Second Boer War, he was a Unionist Party member of the first Parliament of the Union of South Africa from 1910 to 1914.

After further army service in the First World War and in Ireland in the 1920s, he was the Liberal Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Blackpool in the UK from 1923 to 1924.

He took part in operations east of Pretoria in the Transvaal during Summer 1900, and later served with Mounted Infantry in the Orange River Colony.

He transferred to the Border Regiment in October 1915, and then joined the Royal Flying Corps in March 1916, first as wing adjutant and then training as a balloon observation officer.

At the 1922 general election, he stood in the more promising Blackpool constituency, where he lost by only 166 votes to the sitting Conservative MP Leonard Molloy.