Augustus Frederick Warr (September 1847 – 24 March 1908) was an English solicitor from Liverpool and a Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1895 to 1902.
Warr was the third son of Rev George Winter Warr, [1] [2] a Church of England vicar of St Saviour's Church in Liverpool and the Canon of Liverpool from 1880 until his death in 1895. [1] [3] He was educated at the Royal Institution School in Liverpool, and qualified as a solicitor in 1870. [2]
He married the sister of the lawyer Gorell Barnes. [2]
Warr specialised in commercial law, on which he became an established authority. [2] He became a partner in the firm of Batestons, Warr & Wimshurt, and served as President of the Liverpool Law Society in 1892. [4]
He was elected as a Liverpool City Councillor in November 1894. [4] The Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Baron Henry de Worms was ennobled in November 1895, [5] giving him a seat and the House of Lords and creating a vacancy in his Commons seat, the East Toxteth division of Liverpool. [6] Warr was selected as the Conservative candidate for the resulting by-election, and was returned unopposed. [4] [7]
He was re-elected unopposed at the general election in 1900, [8] but found that the increasing workload of Parliament was incompatible with his legal work in Liverpool and his wife's long-term illness. [9] He resigned his seat on 27 October 1902 by the procedural device of accepting appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, [10] [11] triggering another by-election.
Warr died suddenly at the age of 60 on 24 March 1908, after returning home from business. [2]
Augustus Frederick Warr (September 1847 – 24 March 1908) was an English solicitor from Liverpool and a Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1895 to 1902.
Warr was the third son of Rev George Winter Warr, [1] [2] a Church of England vicar of St Saviour's Church in Liverpool and the Canon of Liverpool from 1880 until his death in 1895. [1] [3] He was educated at the Royal Institution School in Liverpool, and qualified as a solicitor in 1870. [2]
He married the sister of the lawyer Gorell Barnes. [2]
Warr specialised in commercial law, on which he became an established authority. [2] He became a partner in the firm of Batestons, Warr & Wimshurt, and served as President of the Liverpool Law Society in 1892. [4]
He was elected as a Liverpool City Councillor in November 1894. [4] The Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Baron Henry de Worms was ennobled in November 1895, [5] giving him a seat and the House of Lords and creating a vacancy in his Commons seat, the East Toxteth division of Liverpool. [6] Warr was selected as the Conservative candidate for the resulting by-election, and was returned unopposed. [4] [7]
He was re-elected unopposed at the general election in 1900, [8] but found that the increasing workload of Parliament was incompatible with his legal work in Liverpool and his wife's long-term illness. [9] He resigned his seat on 27 October 1902 by the procedural device of accepting appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, [10] [11] triggering another by-election.
Warr died suddenly at the age of 60 on 24 March 1908, after returning home from business. [2]