Walter Owen Clough (15 September 1846 – 17 April 1922)[1] was a British Liberal Party politician.
Clough was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire[2] on 15 September 1846.
He was elected at the 1892 general election as a Member of Parliament for Portsmouth. Portsmouth's two MPs (one Liberal Unionist and one Conservative) had not stood for re-election, and Clough was one of the two Liberals elected to replace them.[3]
He was re-elected in 1895, but did not serve a full term, and resigned his seat on 23 April 1900 by the technical device of accepting appointment as Steward of the Manor of Northstead, a notional "office of profit under The Crown".[4] The by-election for his seat was held on 3 May 1900, and won by the Liberal candidate Thomas Bramsdon.
In the 1901 Census of London Clough is listed as a 54-year-old Chartered Accountant & Auditor, Magistrate and D L of the City of London living at Manor House, Upper Richmond Road, Barnes, Surrey with his wife Hannah and two sons.[5]
Clough died in the Kingston Registration district[6] on 17 April 1922 aged 75.
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