Paddy Logan (politician)

He was the son of John Logan of Newport, Monmouthshire and educated at King's School, Gloucester.

He moved to Leicestershire in 1876 to supervise a railway contract and lived near Market Harborough at East Langton Grange, where he gave the village a cricket ground and a hall.

Logan had won Harborough from the Tories at a by-election on 8 May 1891 and held it until his resignation on 1 June 1904.

[3] His political career was devoted to improving the lot of agricultural labourers, and it was in their interests that he had agreed to stand for parliament on the second occasion, but the strain proved too great, forcing him to retire permanently from public life.

[4] During his election campaigns, he was often denied the use of public halls and held his meetings under canvas in what he called the "free speech tent".