Neville Dixey

Charles Neville Douglas Dixey (7 November 1881 – 6 March 1947), known as Neville Dixey, was a British Liberal Party politician who was Chairman of Lloyd's of London three times, as an underwriter he specialised in the marine insurance market.

[3] In 1936 while Chairman of Lloyd's he was involved in discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer regarding budget leaks to members of the stock exchange which resulted in J.H.Thomas, the Secretary of State for the Colonies being forced to resign.

[7] He spent the next 5 years nursing the constituency in preparation for another general election.

With the Liberal party experiencing something of a revival he will have had genuine hopes of winning.

However, in 1929, the Labour party, who had not run a candidate in Holderness before, decided to intervene and took away enough votes from Dixey to allow the Unionist to hang on; He did not stand for parliament again.

Acton in Middlesex, 1922