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Dec 30, 1857 Died on 05 Dec 1929 (aged 71)
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About Gershom Stewart
- Sir Gershom Stewart KBE (30 December 1857 – 5 December 1929) was a Scottish-born British businessman in Hong Kong who became a Conservative Party politician in England.
- He was a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, and after his return to the United Kingdom he sat in the House of Commons from 1910 to 1923, as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Wirral division of Cheshire. A persistent opponent of Irish Home Rule, Stewart was one of the minority of Conservative MPs who opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1921.
- He was also one of the "Diehard Conservatives" who in late 1922 forced the end of the Lloyd George-led coalition government with the Liberals.
